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The lost promise of civil rights /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goluboff, Risa Lauren, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
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.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
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.