Goluboff, Risa Lauren, 1971-

The lost promise of civil rights [electronic resource] / Risa L. Goluboff. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. - viii, 376 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - ACLS Fellows’ publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transition, uncertainty, and the conditions for a new civil rights - - Claiming rights in the agricultural South -- Claiming rights in the i ndustrial economy -- The work of civil rights in the Department of Just ice -- A new deal for civil rights -- Work and workers in the NAACP -- Litigating labor in the wartime NAACP -- Eliminating work from the NAAC P's legal strategy -- Brown and the remaking of civil rights.


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University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2010.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-- Histor y-- 20th century.


African Americans-- Civil rights-- History-- 20th century.
Civil rights movements-- History-- United States-- 20th century.
African Americans-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- History-- 20th cen tury.
African Americans-- Economic conditions-- 20th century.
African Americans-- Employment-- Law and legislation-- History-- 20th century.


United States-- Race relations-- History-- 20th century.