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The work of civil rights in the 1940s :The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African-American agricultural labor.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The work of civil rights in the 1940s :
Reminder of title:	The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African-American agricultural labor.
Author:	Goluboff, Risa Lauren.
Description:	420 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Hendrik Hartog.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 3042.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-08A.
Subject:	History, United States.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3101044
ISBN:	0496486322

The work of civil rights in the 1940s :The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African-American agricultural labor.
Goluboff, Risa Lauren.

The work of civil rights in the 1940s :The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African-American agricultural labor. [electronic resource] - 420 p.

Adviser: Hendrik Hartog.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2003.

The concrete context in which I explore their approaches is the racialized political economy of the agricultural South. African American agricultural workers generated rights complaints involving both racial and economic components. While the NAACP gradually eliminated these complaints---and economic issues generally---from the civil rights it eventually succeeded in establishing as legal doctrine, the CRS embraced such complaints and pursued a civil rights practice that combined racial and economic issues. Recapturing the complaints of agricultural workers, the legal practice they inspired, and the civil rights they might have produced teaches the deep contingency that characterized the creation of civil rights in the 1940s.

ISBN: 0496486322Subjects--Topical Terms:

212533
History, United States.

The work of civil rights in the 1940s :The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African-American agricultural labor.
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520 # $a The lawyers in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Section (CRS) and the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund---both created in 1939---were situated differently. Consequently, they approached the formulation of new conceptions of civil rights in different ways. Central to the project of both groups of lawyers, however, was the question of how to remake the past and into what image of the future. The past upon which they could draw, and within which they had learned to think about civil rights, was largely dominated by economic issues. The political present in which they found themselves was one in which both racial and economic issues were ascendant. Whether and how each group incorporated economic issues into their own civil rights practices serves as the focal point of the dissertation.
520 # $a This dissertation examines the construction of modern civil rights law in the 1940s. Historians looking back on the period before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 have generally focused on the litigation strategy that led to that victory. This shared historical project has predisposed historians to assume a fixed meaning for the concept of civil rights. Civil rights lawyers in the 1940s, however, did not know where legal doctrine was headed. This dissertation accordingly views the construction of civil rights prospectively. It details the improvisational practice of civil rights lawyers during the period of social, political, and legal flux that accompanied the end of the Depression and the onset of World War II.
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