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

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 376 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674024656 (alk. paper)
  • 0674024656 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/073 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .G64 2007
Online resources:
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.

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 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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