Civil rights and the making of the modern American state /
Did the civil rights movement impact the development of the American state? Despite extensive accounts of civil rights mobilization and narratives of state building, there has been surprisingly little research that explicitly examines the importance and consequence that civil rights activism has had...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Rethinking civil rights and American political development
- The birth of the NAACP, mob violence, and the challenge of public opinion
- The unsteady march into the Oval Office
- Anti-lynching legislation and the sinking of the Republican ship in Congress
- Defending the right to live
- Civil rights bound
- Appendix. Manuscript sources.