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

Author/creator Goluboff, Risa Lauren, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--History. --20th century.
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.
United States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007013625
ISBN9780674024656 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674024656 (alk. paper)