Melissa Milewski

Litigating Across the Color Line

Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780190249182
• ISBN-10: 0190249188
• Artikelnr.: 48454268

Autorenporträt

Melissa Milewski is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex in England.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Part 1: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners, 1861-1899
Chapter 1 A Revolution in the Courts
Chapter 2 How to Litigate a Case Against a White Southerner
Chapter 3 Challenging Whites' Bequests
Chapter 4 The Law of Contracts and Property
Part 2: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners, 1900-1950
Chapter 5 The New South and the Law
Chapter 6 Confronting Fraud Through the Courts
Chapter 7 The Law of Bodily Injury
Chapter 8 Fighting for Rights in the Courts
Epilogue
Appendix A: Notes on Methodology, Sources, and Findings
Appendix B: Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index