Learning to lobby : the lessons of the NAACP's 1930s federal anti-lynching campaign

Why the NAACP pursued anti-lynching legislation with such vigour despite a decade of defeat in the Senate is the key research question this thesis considers. In doing so it analyses two aspects of the NAACP’s lobbying efforts during the 1930s: its attempts to push anti-lynching bills through Congres...

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Main Author: Cooper, Melissa
Published: University of East Anglia 2017
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.753840