Litigating across the color line: civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights
Auteur :
Milewski, Melissa Lambert
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780190249182
Date de publication :
28 déc. 2017
Dimensions :
15,7 x 23,9 x 3,3 cm
Poids :
621 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.