Litigating Across the Color Line - Civil Cases Between Black White Southerners From End of Slavery to

Zusatztext This is not an easy topic to research, and one of the pleasures of Litigating Across the Color Line is Milewski's discussion of the challenges posed by her research subject and the creative solutions upon which she settled ...[I]mpressive archival research ...[O]ffers powerful insights about dynamics of the black freedom struggle ...The reconstruction of this remarkable story is a major contribution to legal historical scholarship. Informationen zum Autor Melissa Milewski is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex in England. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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• Authors: Melissa Milewski, Melissa Lambert (Lecturer in American Hi Milewski, Melissa Lambert (Lecturer in American History Milewski, Milewski Melissa Lambert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2017
• EAN: 9780190249182
• ISBN: 978-0-19-024918-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Litigation, Legal History, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Civil codes / Civil law