What influence do funders have on the development of civil rights legal mobilization? Fundraising is critical to the creation, operation, and survival of rights organizations. Yet, despite the importance of funding, there is little systematic attention in the law and social movements and cause lawyering literatures on the relationship between funders and grantees. This article recovers a forgotten history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP) campaign to protect black lives from lynchings and mob violence in the early twentieth century. I argue that funders engaged in a process of movement capture whereby they used their financial leverage to redirect the NAACP's agenda away from the issue of racial violence to a focus on education at a critical juncture in the civil rights movement. The findings in this article suggest that activists tread carefully as the interaction between funders and social movement organizations often creates gaps between what activists want and what funders think movements should do.

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公民权利的代价：黑生命，白资金和运动俘获

资助者对民权法律动员的发展有什么影响？筹款对于权利组织的建立，运作和生存至关重要。然而，尽管资金的重要性，法律和社会运动中却很少有系统的关注，并且引起了关于资助人与受赠人之间关系的律师文献的报道。本文回顾了全国有色人种促进协会（NAACP）在二十世纪初期保护黑人生命免受私刑和暴民暴力侵害的历史。我认为，资助者参与了行动捕捉过程，他们利用其财务杠杆将NAACP的议程从种族暴力问题转移到关注民权运动紧要关头的教育上。