Focusing on the NAACP's campaign for voting rights, the author challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation.
This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
Manfred Berg traces the history of lynching in America from the colonial era to the present. Berg focuses on lynching as extralegal communal punishment... Læs mere