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The Long Civil Rights Movement The Long Civil Rights Movement
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Goluboff’s Laborite Perspective Goluboff’s Laborite Perspective
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The Usefulness of the Thirteenth Amendment The Usefulness of the Thirteenth Amendment
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The NAACP in Transition The NAACP in Transition
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Recasting and Constraining the Civil Rights Idea Recasting and Constraining the Civil Rights Idea
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9 The Lost Promise of the Long Civil Rights Movement
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Published:September 2013
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Abstract
This chapter examines Risa Goluboff's The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, which incorporates the perspective of labor and social historians who have posited the importance and power of a working-class-oriented civil rights movement in the 1940s. She finds that an alternative set of legal strategies and organizing initiatives was available to civil rights litigators, indeed that these more economically radical strategies were successfully deployed, and, that if they had been consistently pursued would have given this plebian civil rights orientation an embedded character in law and social policy during the decades to come. In effect, Goluboff posits in the most precise fashion an alternative definition to the meaning of what we have come to think of as civil rights law and litigation and then asks why this more proletarian version was marginalized in the years after 1950.
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