Megan Ming Francis

Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State

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Produktbeschreibung

This book extends what we know about the development of civil rights and the role of the NAACP in American politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781107037106
• ISBN-10: 1107037107
• Artikelnr.: 40705935

Autorenporträt

Megan Ming Francis is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University, Malibu. She completed her PhD in the department of politics at Princeton University, New Jersey in 2008, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago in 2008-9 and as a Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Law, Society, and Culture at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2009-10. Francis's research interests include American political development, race, crime, civil liberties, and civil rights.

Inhaltsangabe

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.