Civil rights and the making of the modern American state, Megan Ming Francis, Pepperdine University
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Civil rights and the making of the modern American state, Megan Ming Francis, Pepperdine University
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Civil rights and the making of the modern American state
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bibliography
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868147282
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Megan Ming Francis, Pepperdine University
Summary
"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 for the process of state building in American political and constitutional development. Through a sweeping archival analysis of the NAACP's battle against lynching and mob violence from 1909 to 1923, this book examines how the NAACP raised public awareness, won over American presidents, and secured the support of Congress. In the NAACP's most far-reaching victory, the Supreme Court ruled that the constitutional rights of black defendants were violated by a white mob in the landmark criminal procedure decision Moore v. Dempsey. This book demonstrates the importance of citizen agency in the making of new constitutional law in a period unexplored by previous scholarship"--, Provided by publisher
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
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- African Americans + Legal status, laws, etc
- African Americans + Civil rights
- Constitutional law
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights
- Lynching + Law and legislation -- United States
- History
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Government + General
- 1900 - 1999
- United States
- Lynching + Law and legislation
- Constitutional law -- United States
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- African Americans + Civil rights + History -- 20th century
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- African Americans + Legal status, laws, etc
- African Americans + Civil rights
- Constitutional law
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights
- Lynching + Law and legislation -- United States
- History
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Government + General
- 1900 - 1999
- United States
- Lynching + Law and legislation
- Constitutional law -- United States
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- African Americans + Civil rights + History -- 20th century
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