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I LOVE unequivocally to see any author or voice at any time reaching back to the important civil and voting rights history of the pre-Legal Defense Fund era. I do not, however, understand why seem unable to locate the best recent scholarship. So, to help them out... 1/
...let& #39;s look at the broader PLESSY-era fight against segregation in publications, and the best place to start is with @profblmkelley and RIGHT TO RIDE. 2/
@S_L_Alexander has a great deal to show you regarding the largest and longest-lived of the pre-NAACP civil rights organizations. 3/
Then as now, activists looked to the courts, and they did so because they saw courts as a rare arena where they might have a chance to successfully compete. @MilewskiMelissa will show you just how extensive this all was. 4/
Maybe you want to step back and take a global view of the period. Begin with works such as @GilmoreGlenda& #39;s legendary GENDER AND JIM CROW, and don& #39;t stop reading until you& #39;ve also made a study of @scarle1& #39;s DEFINING THE STRUGGLE. 5/
No activist or activist group could make it into (or through) court without effective counsel, so maybe you& #39;ll want to know how civil rights lawyers were made. Go to Clay Smith& #39;s EMANCIPATION and to @KennethWMack& #39;s REPRESENTING THE RACE. 6/
It& #39;s curiously difficult to expand the historical field of vision. We& #39;re a deeply conservative discipline, after all. But, though, WMS v. MS was enormously consequential, it was neither the only nor the most important disfranchisement decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. 7/
WILLIAMS v. MISSISSIPPI was one of *twelve* disfranchisement cases to reach the U.S. Supreme Court between 1895 and 1908. And, there are all the other lower court actions to consider, too. Here, then, is where I immodestly hawk my own contribution to this literature. 8/
I have another thread going about disfranchisement litigation, but as I noted there, it is misery to see my work obtain present-day relevance. Younger me abandoned his political ambitions precisely b/c I didn& #39;t want to be an advocate. 9/
But, here we are. I do mean *we*. I haven& #39;t listed here anything like a comprehensive list of all the exciting work from the past 20 or even 10 yrs. Look also to the exciting new work in APD. Robert Mickey& #39;s PATHS OUT OF DIXIE, for example. 10/
Or, maybe you& #39;ll want to spend some time with Ira Katznelson& #39;s, David Bateman& #39;s, and John Lapinski& #39;s SOUTHERN NATION. 11/
Revisit my grad school mentor Kari Frederickson& #39;s classic THE DIXIECRAT REVOLT and my pal Jason Ward& #39;s DEFENDING WHITE DEMOCRACY to look at how the Jim Crow political order began to collapse. 12/
@evanfaulkenbury will walk you through the work of educating a newly reenfranchised citizenry in POLL POWER. Let @ProfJeffries show you the nitty gritty of how the march continued long after the march. 13/
One of the great pleasures of publishing is your books introduce to you all sorts of great people. To that point, & since I& #39;ve singled out WMS v. MS this morning, keep an eye out for exciting new work from @BrandoStarkey... The end. /14
