"Trying to Mesh All of These Groups into Some Sort of a Force" -- "Nothing Like the Present Ferment Has Been Seen for Seventy-Five Years" -- "We Have No Formal Structure" -- "The Unity among These Groups Is Truly Tremendous" -- "The Leadership Conference Plans to Continue" -- "To Speak for Millions" -- Appendix: Methodological Note, Interviews, and Archival Collections.
Summary:
"Explores the early years of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the interest group coalition that has coordinated the efforts of more than fifty organizations to secure civil rights legislation since the 1950s. Explains the LCCR's organizational dynamics and the role its lobbyists played in the Second Reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher.
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