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Zusatztext Graduate students and scholars will find Susan Carle's Defining the Struggle informative, as it pushes the boundaries of the early legal history of racial justice advocacy and modern civil rights activism back into the late nineteenth century. Readers and researchers will appreciate the extensive endnotes and bibliography of primary sources and secondary literature. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book punctures the myth that important national civil rights organizing in the United States began with the NAACP, showing that earlier national organizations developed key ideas about law and racial justice activism that the NAACP later pursued. Zusammenfassung This book punctures the myth that important national civil rights organizing in the United States began with the NAACP, showing that earlier national organizations developed key ideas about law and racial justice activism that the NAACP later pursued. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
