Defining the Struggle

National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915

AvSusan D. Carle

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history. But these two flagship institutions were not the first important national organizations devoted to advancing the cause of racial justice. Instead, it was even earlier groups -- including the National Afro American League, the National Afro American Council, the National Association of Colored Women, and the Niagara Movement - that developed and transmitted to the NAACP and National Urban League foundational ideas about law and lawyering that these latter organizations would then pursue. With unparalleled scholarly depth, Defining the Struggle explores these forerunner organizations whose contributions in shaping early twentieth century national civil rights organizing have largely been forgotten today. It examines the motivations of their leaders, the initiatives they undertook, and the ideas about law and racial justice activism they developed and passed on to future generations. In so doing, it sheds new light on how these early origins helped set the path for twentieth century legal civil rights activism in the United States.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-06-18
Mått:155 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt:612 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Press
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190235246

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Susan Carle teaches legal ethics, anti-discrimination law, labor and employment law, and torts at American University Washington College of Law. She writes primarily about the history of social change lawyering, anti-discrimination law, and topics at the intersections between civil rights, employment, and labor law. In the past she has been a community organizer, civil rights lawyer, and union-side labor lawyer.

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Susan Carle's Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 18801915 provides a useful entry point into an examination of the legal history of civil rights and its relationship to the historiography of the long civil rights movement.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; Chapter 1. A New Generation of Post-Reconstruction Leaders ; Chapter 2. The Legal and Political Vision of T. Thomas Fortune, Founder of the National Afro American League, 1880-1890 ; Chapter 3. The National Afro American League's Founding and Law-Related ; Work, 1887-1895 ; Chapter 4: The Dispute between the <"Radicals>" and the <"Accommodationists>" within the Afro American Council: Reverdy Ransom and Booker T. Washington's Contrasting Visions of Racial Justice, 1895-1902 ; Chapter 5: The Afro American Council's Internal History, 1898-1908 ; Chapter 6: <"Should Not a Nation Be Just to All of Her Citizens?>": The Afro American Council's Legal Work, 1898-1908 ; Chapter 7: <"Unity in Diversity>": The National Association of Colored Women's Dual Social Welfare and Civil Rights Agenda, 1895-1910 ; Chapter 8: Asserting <"Manhood>" Rights: The Niagara Movement's First Year, 1905 ; Chapter 9: The Beginnings of Twentieth Century Protest in the Niagara Movement's Experience, 1906-1909 ; Chapter 10: Atlanta and New York City; Founding the National Urban League ; Chapter 11: Founding the NAACP: Building the Organization, 1908-1915 ; Chapter 12: Building the NAACP's Legal Agenda, 1910-1915 ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index