Litigating across the color line : civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights /

Litigating across the color line : civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / Melissa Milewski.

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In a largely previously untold story, from 1865 to 1950, black litigants throughout the South took on white southerners in civil suits. Drawing on almost a thousand cases, Milewski shows how African Americans negotiated the southern legal system and won suits against whites after the Civil War and b...

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Main Author: Milewski, Melissa Lambert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > Cases.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History.
Race discrimination > Southern States > History.
Courts > Southern States > History.

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Call Number: KF4757 .M49 2017
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