Winant-Mellon Symposium - How to Capture the Administrative State: Philanthropy, Law, and the Future of Civil Rights
23 May 15:15
Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UB
Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington, Seattle)
The explosion of public interest law significantly shaped the administrative state in the 1960s and the 1970s. Indeed, a stronger administrative state was viewed as crucial to bringing about the guarantees in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But how did public interest law and a stronger administrative state become central to the larger vision of civil rights reform? Did civil rights organizations push for it? What was the role of funders? By examining the actions of the Ford Foundation and the NAACP-LDF in the 1960s, this talk will explore the role of civil rights organizations and funders in shaping the administrative state.
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