Litigating Across the Color Line : Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights.
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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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. |
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