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

9780190249212 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

KF4757 .M49 2017

346.74008996073009041

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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