The lost promise of civil rights

The lost promise of civil rights / Risa L. Goluboff.

"In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a new account of the history of American civil rights law. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education has long dominated that history. Since 1954, generations of judges, lawyers, and ordinary people have viewed civil ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goluboff, Risa Lauren, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > History > 20th century.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
1900-1999
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Employment > Law and legislation > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Economic conditions
African Americans > Employment > Law and legislation
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights movements
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Transition, uncertainty, and the conditions for a new civil rights
  • Claiming rights in the agricultural South
  • Claiming rights in the industrial economy
  • The work of civil rights in the Department of Justice
  • A new deal for civil rights
  • Work and workers in the NAACP
  • Litigating labor in the wartime NAACP
  • Eliminating work from the NAACP's legal strategy
  • Brown and the remaking of civil rights.

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