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American University Washington College of Law

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2017

Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Make-Whole Or Make-Short? How Courts Have Misread Title Vii's Limitations Period To Truncate Relief In Eeoc Pattern-Or-Practice Cases, Sara A. Fairchild Jan 2017

Make-Whole Or Make-Short? How Courts Have Misread Title Vii's Limitations Period To Truncate Relief In Eeoc Pattern-Or-Practice Cases, Sara A. Fairchild

American University Law Review

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"Lifting As We Climb": The American Council On Human Rights And The Quest For Civil Rights, Gregory S. Parks Jan 2017

"Lifting As We Climb": The American Council On Human Rights And The Quest For Civil Rights, Gregory S. Parks

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

The narrative of African Americans’ quest for racial equality and social justice in the Twentieth Century is typically construed in the context of main-line civil rights organizations—e.g., NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and the like. However, for decades, black fraternal networks had been helping to lay the groundwork for the major civil rights campaigns that culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1938 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated created the National Non-Partisan Lobby on Civil and Democratic Rights (“NPC”), later renamed the National Non-Partisan Council on Public Affairs. It was the first full-time congressional lobby for minority group civil rights. …