Civil rights and the making of the modern American state / Megan Ming Francis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Francis, Megan Ming, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Lynching--Law and legislation.

United States.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

United States. Supreme Court.

Lynching--Law and legislation--United States.

Lynching.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

xvii, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Rethinking civil rights and American political development; 2. The birth of the NAACP, mob violence, and the challenge of public opinion; 3. The unsteady march into the Oval Office; 4. Anti-lynching legislation and the sinking of the Republican ship in Congress; 5. Defending the right to live; 6. Civil rights bound; Appendix. Manuscript sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107037106

1107037107

9781107697973

1107697972

OCLC:

868147282

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