Attorneys Black and White: A Case Study of Race Relations within the NAACP

THE civil rights revolution of the 1960s stimulated a critical reevaluation of the roles of whites and blacks in the struggle for racial equality in America. Much of the recent literature has emphasized the cleavages and tensions between Negroes and whites in these organizations, the ambivalences in the relations between members of the two races, and the blacks' efforts for a greater voice in, or control of, the movement for their freedom.' Recently two sociologists, Gary Marx and Michael Useem, have drawn upon these historical studies in an effort to establish generalizations about the participation of individuals from privileged groups in move-