TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francis,Megan Ming,‏
TI  - Civil rights and the making of the modern American state
SN  - 9781107697973 
U1  - 323.0973 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
KW  - United States
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Lynching
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - LLAAWW
KW  - August 2016	
N1  - Index : p. 193-197; Bibliography : p. 191-192.; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -