The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jan 2026 on Digital Social Hour.
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Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education has long dominated that history. Since 1954, generations of judges, lawyers, and ordinary people have viewed civil rights as a project of breaking down formal legal barriers to integration, especially in the context of public education. Goluboff recovers a world before Brown , a world in which civil rights was legally, conceptually, and constitutionally up for grabs. Then, the petitions of black agricultural workers in the American South and industrial workers across the nation called for a civil rights law that would redress economic as well as legal inequalities.
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Chad O. Jackson💬 Mentioned
…chad recommending book on government's role in civil rights movement
“You can read a book by Risa Goluboff. She's a law professor. I think she's actually the dean of the University of Virginia. She wrote a book called The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, where she actually documents the government's interest in using the civil rights movement to expand its own power.”
Digital Social Hour — Chad O. Jackson vs Austin Off Script – Martin Luther King DEBATE | DSH #1734at 42:04
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