TY - GEN N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - Litigating across the color line :civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / AU - Milewski, Melissa Lambert, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - KF4757 ID - 808541 KW - African Americans KW - African Americans KW - African Americans KW - Race discrimination KW - Courts SN - 9780190249212 TI - Litigating across the color line :civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249182.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249182.001.0001 ER -