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Litigating across the color line : civil cases between Black and White Southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights /

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As a result of the violence, segregation and disfranchisement that occurred throughout the South in the decades after Reconstruction, it has generally been assumed that African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South litigated few civil cases and faced widespread inequality in the suits they did...

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Main Author: Milewski, Melissa Lambert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > Cases.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History.
Race discrimination > Southern States > History.
Courts > Southern States > History.
Due process of law > Southern States > History.
HISTORY / African American.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
LAW / Legal History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Civil cases between black and white southerners, 1861-1899
  • A revolution in the courts
  • How to litigate a case against a white southerner
  • Challenging whites' bequests
  • The law of contracts and property
  • Part 2. Civil cases between black and white southerners, 1900-1950
  • The New South and the law
  • Confronting fraud through the courts
  • The law of bodily injury
  • Fighting for rights in the courts
  • Appendix A. Notes on methodology, sources, and findings
  • Appendix B. Tables.