Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights
- ISBN-10
- 0190249188
- ISBN-13
- 9780190249182
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Melissa Milewski, Melissa Lambert Milewski
Description
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
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