Lobbying as a Means of Protest

Since its inception more than fifty years ago, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has sought justice for the Negro in America. Although its most spectacular activity has occurred in the courts, the true measure of its efforts is not to be found exclusively in the favorable decisions secured. For the NAACP has never viewed legal redress as a panacea for that ubiquitous societal malady, inequality social, economic, political; nor has it functioned on the premise that the courts are the sole instruments of equality in our society. Commentators on these turbulent times often display a lack of perspective for the Negro revolt by ignoring or deemphasizing the nonjudicial aspects of the NAACP's historic protest. This paper is an effort to provide that perspective.'

Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics