Fighting the Machine: NAACP Institutional Responses to Police Brutality From Jim Crow to Early Civil Rights
Published online on June 19, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Black Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the NAACP’s campaign against police brutality from 1937 to 1965, drawing on over 90 case files from the association’s national archives. Using a Critical Race Theory framework, it analyzes how the NAACP developed investigatory, ...
This article examines the NAACP’s campaign against police brutality from 1937 to 1965, drawing on over 90 case files from the association’s national archives. Using a Critical Race Theory framework, it analyzes how the NAACP developed investigatory, ...