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Bureaucrats of liberation : Southern African and American lawyers and clients during the apartheid era / Myra Ann Houser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houser, Myra Ann, author.
- Series:
- Critical, connected histories.
- Critical, connected histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern Africa Project (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)--History.
- Southern Africa Project (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law).
- Civil rights--South Africa.
- Civil rights.
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- Lawyers--Political activity--United States.
- Lawyers.
- Lawyers--Political activity--South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- <i>Bureaucrats of Liberation</i> narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Right under law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project's network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems. The Project's history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project's different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics.
- Contents:
- Two regions, (nearly) one legal tradition
- Settings
- Beginning(s) of the project
- Cause lawyering and litigation in the 1970s
- Black consciousness in South Africa and the US
- Supportive projects : Black Women Against Apartheid
- Prosecuting frenzies and deaths in the 1980s
- US activism and the Free South Africa Movement
- Namibia, sanctions, and apartheid's death grip
- Transitions during the 1990s.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789400603783
- 9400603789
- OCLC:
- 1175273896
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