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Author Gelbman, Shamira Michal, author

Title The civil rights lobby : the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the second reconstruction / Shamira Gelbman
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021

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Contents Trying to Mesh All of These Groups into Some Sort of a Force -- Nothing Like the Present Ferment Has Been Seen for Seventy-Five Years -- We Have No Formal Structure -- The Unity among These Groups Is Truly Tremendous -- The Leadership Conference Plans to Continue -- To Speak for Millions -- Appendix: Methodological Note, Interviews, and Archival Collections
Summary "Explores the early years of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the interest group coalition that has coordinated the efforts of more than fifty organizations to secure civil rights legislation since the 1950s. Explains the LCCR's organizational dynamics and the role its lobbyists played in the Second Reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Leadership Conference on Civil Rights -- History
SUBJECT Leadership Conference on Civil Rights fast
Subject Public interest lobbying -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Public interest groups -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Coalitions -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Coalitions
Public interest groups
Public interest lobbying
Race relations -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021003987
ISBN 1439920478
9781439920473