Powerful Connections: Associational Power and Civil Rights Enforcement

• In Event: The American Struggle for Civil Rights: Persistence, Resistance, and Retrenchment

Brief Overview

What explains episodes of racial democratization in the UA? We show that a "civil rights state" prevailed uniquely during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement of the twentieth century.

Authors

• Robert Lieberman, Johns Hopkins University

• Desmond King, University of Oxford