Person:
Ganz, Marshall

Loading...
Profile Picture

Email Address

AA Acceptance Date

Birth Date

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Job Title

Last Name

Ganz

First Name

Marshall

Name

Ganz, Marshall

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 10 of 18
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Duty to the Race: African American Fraternal Orders and the Legal Defense of the Right to Organize
    (Project Muse, 2004) Liazos, Ariane; Ganz, Marshall
    In 1904, leaders of three major white fraternal orders launched a nationally coordinated legislative and legal campaign to force their black counterparts out of existence, a struggle that spread to at least 29 states and culminated in victories for the African American groups before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1912 and 1929. The organizational structures of the black orders, usually consisting of a tripartite system of local, state, and national lodges, were critical in this successful defense of the legal right to form and operate fraternal organizations. These structures enabled fraternal members and leaders to turn local disputes into national ones, devise strategies based on the interplay of different levels of government, and sustain a discourse that facilitated internal mobilization and minimized external opposition. While most scholarship on resistance to Jim Crow has focused on local activism, the defense mounted by these orders facilitated the development of sophisticated, nationwide networks binding together local fraternal leaders and African American lawyers. These networks became a critical venue for the development of oppositional traditions, organizational infrastructures, and leadership ties that kept resistance alive under Jim Crow and laid the building blocks for future political and civil rights–related work. In particular, these fraternal lawyers, a number of whom went on to work for the NAACP, honed skills in these trials that were also central to the NAACP's legal strategy, especially in learning to tailor cases to achieve federal hearings.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Motor Voter or Motivated Voter?
    (New Prospect, Inc., 1996) Ganz, Marshall
    The Motor Voter law was supposed to dramatically increase turnout and give marginalized groups more voice in politics. Unfortunately, getting these groups to register doesn't do any good if you don't give them reason to vote.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
    (American Political Science Association, 2000) Skocpol, Theda; Ganz, Marshall; Munson, Ziad
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Voters in the Crosshairs
    (The American Prospect, 2001) Ganz, Marshall
    New technologies were supposed to enable campaigns to reach more voters. Instead, they ended up fragmenting and alienating much of the electorate.
  • Publication
    Staying Connected to Our Moral Sources
    (2007) Ganz, Marshall
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement
    (American Sociological Association, 2009) Ganz, Marshall
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    What Is Public Narrative: Self, Us & Now
    (2009) Ganz, Marshall
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Hope in the Story of Hagar, Sarah, and Abraham
    (2008) Ganz, Marshall