All for civil rights : African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968 / W. Lewis Burke.
"'The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina, ' writes [the author], 'is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.' Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black l...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] Ã2017 |
| Series: | Southern legal studies.
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Table of Contents:
- The coming of freedom
- Reconstruction and the birth of a new kind of lawyer
- The education of the new lawyers
- Law practice in Reconstruction
- The end of Reconstruction : purge, exodus, and demise
- New lawyers
- Law practice and politics in the Gilded Age
- A last stand
- From the Great Migration to the Great Depression
- All-white juries and the continuing struggle for voting rights
- The 1940s and the civil rights era
- The modern civil rights era
- A new generation.