Litigating Across the Color Line

Litigating Across the Color Line
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780190249182
ISBN-13 : 0190249188
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Book Synopsis Litigating Across the Color Line by : Melissa Lambert Milewski

Download or read book Litigating Across the Color Line written by Melissa Lambert Milewski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 before the Civil Rights struggle.


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