The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Risa Goluboff

  • Co-winner, 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association

Abbreviations Used in the Text

Introduction

1. Transition, Uncertainty, and the Conditions for a New Civil Rights

2. Claiming Rights in the Agricultural South

3. Claiming Rights in the Industrial Economy

4. The Work of Civil Rights in the Department of Justice

5. A New Deal for Civil Rights

6. Work and Workers in the NAACP

7. Litigating Labor in the Wartime NAACP

8. Eliminating Work from the NAACP's Legal Strategy

9. Brown and the Remaking of Civil Rights

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Tom Cogill

Risa L. Goluboff is Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Caddell & Chapman Research Professor at the University of Virginia.