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Litigating across the color line : civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / Melissa Milewski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milewski, Melissa Lambert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Southern States--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Southern States--Cases.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History.
- Race discrimination--Southern States--History.
- Race discrimination.
- Courts--Southern States--History.
- Courts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 17, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-024920-X
- 0-19-024921-8
- 9780190249199
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