on what uri mcmillan said, a mix of the number of archives, from congress to naacp archives, warren g. harding archives along with a number of archives that are housed at harvard university. at this point i want to go into a breakdown of what i argue in my book. the project intercede in existing literature by placing the naacp at the crux of understanding building the 20th at century american state. a la three pardon. chris cotter argued the naacp is campaigning on lynching and mob violence at the beginning of the long civil rights movement, not brown vs. board of education is too many scholars and uncritically assume or even the labor movement in the 40s. second i argue bottom of change through state formation, bottom up change shakes state formation counting political development to decentered the role of political institution in this political science literature. and the naacp is publicized at the federal level at a time when previous scholarships suggest black organizations were inactive. it tournament the naacp played a pivotal role in the growth of central court power and subsequently in

of course, was looking into misbehavior by the warren g. harding administration, which was a republican administration. walsh continues to press on this until he finally got some breaks. he got some people to admit that what they had originally said was not true. one of whom was the publisher of the "washington post" who when the secretary of the interior was charged with suddenly having rebuilt his ranch in new mexico, a beautiful road leading up to it and fixed up the exterior, just about the time that the oil leases were being sold to private investors, ned said that he lent secretary that money. he didn't have to get it through illegal means. and then finally walsh got mcklain m mclane to testify in this room and said, you know, did you lend him the money? he said, yes, i did, but he returned it right away. that pulled the rug out. and it became clear he had taken a fall. fall became the first member of the president's cabinet to go to jail as a result of this. the attorney general was also involved. the whole harding administration was coming

and also, lobbying the presidents woodrow wilson and warren g. harding and then also in trying to pass the bill in congress. the broad theoretical contribution of the project is the idea of how to think about american political development. in the previous research it is a demonstration of the important role as civil rights organizations played in the national state building project. my research revealed that by taking a step back and examining the change in the political and social environment and we will see the role that the naacp place. at this point i think that it's necessary to establish why the naacp puts so much muscle behind the issue of the racial violence. so if the book focuses on the naacp campaign against violence and the institutions in the federal government, it is important to understand why they did so. from the beginning, the violence was at the top of the naacp agenda. since it was considered to be the greatest obstacle in the north and south to gain a quality in america and in response to criticism from another board member in 1916