The Price of Civil Rights
Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4085155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan Ming Francis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 275-309 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lasr.12384 |
| OpenAlex | W2911579082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 59 |
What influence do funders have on the development of civil rights legal mobilization? Fundraising is critical to the creation, operation, and survival of rights organizations. Yet, despite the importance of funding, there is little systematic attention in the law and social movements and cause lawyering literatures on the relationship between funders and grantees. This article recovers a forgotten history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) campaign to protect black lives from lynchings and mob violence in the early twentieth century. I argue that funders engaged in a process of movement capture whereby they used their financial leverage to redirect the NAACP's agenda away from the issue of racial violence to a focus on education at a critical juncture in the civil rights movement. The findings in this article suggest that activists tread carefully as the interaction between funders and social movement organizations often creates gaps between what activists want and what funders think movements should do
Civil rights · Criminology · Leverage (statistics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social movement · Sociology · White (mutation · American History and Culture · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 49 |
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| Citations per year | 8,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |