Defining the Struggle

Susan Carle teaches legal ethics, anti-discrimination law, labor and employment law, and torts at American University Washington College of Law. She writes primarily about the history of social change lawyering, anti-discrimination law, and topics at the intersections between civil rights, employment, and labor law. In the past she has been a community organizer, civil rights lawyer, and union-side labor lawyer.

• Introduction ; Chapter 1. A New Generation of Post-Reconstruction Leaders ; Chapter 2. The Legal and Political Vision of T. Thomas Fortune, Founder of the National Afro American League, 1880-1890 ; Chapter 3. The National Afro American League's Founding and Law-Related ; Work, 1887-1895 ; Chapter 4: The Dispute between the <"Radicals>" and the <"Accommodationists>" within the Afro American Council: Reverdy Ransom and Booker T. Washington's Contrasting Visions of Racial Justice, 1895-1902 ; Chapter 5: The Afro American Council's Internal History, 1898-1908 ; Chapter 6: <"Should Not a Nation Be Just to All of Her Citizens?>": The Afro American Council's Legal Work, 1898-1908 ; Chapter 7: <"Unity in Diversity>": The National Association of Colored Women's Dual Social Welfare and Civil Rights Agenda, 1895-1910 ; Chapter 8: Asserting <"Manhood>" Rights: The Niagara Movement's First Year, 1905 ; Chapter 9: The Beginnings of Twentieth Century Protest in the Niagara Movement's Experience, 1906-1909 ; Chapter 10: Atlanta and New York City; Founding the National Urban League ; Chapter 11: Founding the NAACP: Building the Organization, 1908-1915 ; Chapter 12: Building the NAACP's Legal Agenda, 1910-1915 ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgements ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Susan Carle's Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 18801915 provides a useful entry point into an examination of the legal history of civil rights and its relationship to the historiography of the long civil rights movement.