Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941

Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941

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Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941

dc.contributor.author	Mack, Kenneth W.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-04T18:22:33Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.identifier.citation	Kenneth W. Mack, Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941, 93 J. Am. Hist. 37 (2006).	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1945-2314 0021-8723	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9687857
dc.description.abstract	What was the role of law and lawyers in the civil rights movement? Recent work has emphasized a tension between the legal strategies of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a commitment to mass movement politics and economic populism. This article takes up that question by examining the everyday lives and litigation performances of depression-era black lawyers affiliated with the NAACP, arguing that the scholarly debate should be reframed through attention to the role of courtroom performances as crucial sites where race and professional identity was made and remade for civil rights lawyers such as Charles Houston, Raymond Pace Alexander, William Hastie, and Thurgood Marshall. Responding to the critics on their left, the lawyers fashioned a new professional identity that melded the NAACP's traditional approaches and concerns with a commitment to mass democratic politics.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Organization of American Historians -- Oxford Journals	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://www.jah.oxfordjournal.org/content/93/1/37.full.pdf	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1140962	en_US
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dc.title	Law and Mass Politics in the Making of the Civil Rights Lawyer, 1931-1941	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Journal of American History	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Mack, Kenneth W.
dash.embargo.until	10000-01-01