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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

Litigating Across the Color Line

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  • Author : Melissa Milewski
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 361 pages
  • ISBN : 0190249188
  • PDF File Size : 44,6 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Litigating Across the Color Line

Litigating Across the Color Line
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 35,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 May 2024
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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

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • File Size : 46,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 January 2018
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In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid

Race and the Law in South Carolina

Race and the Law in South Carolina
  • Publisher : Amherst College Press
  • File Size : 32,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 May 2024
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Race and the Law in South Carolina carefully reconstructs the social history behind six legal disputes heard in the South Carolina courts between the 1840s and the 1940s. The book

In the Shadow of Dred Scott

In the Shadow of Dred Scott
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • File Size : 52,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 April 2017
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The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally

Litigating the Right to Health in Africa

Litigating the Right to Health in Africa
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 55,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 09 March 2016
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Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advance the right to health. Litigation can provide a powerful

Legal History of the Color Line

Legal History of the Color Line
  • Publisher : Backintyme
  • File Size : 32,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 May 2024
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Annotation. This analysis of the nearly 300 appealed court cases that decided the "race" of individual Americans may be the most thorough study of the legal history of the U.S.

The Hollow Hope

The Hollow Hope
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • File Size : 41,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 September 2008
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In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating

Before the Manifesto

Before the Manifesto
  • Publisher : Life Writings of Frontier Wome
  • File Size : 40,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 20 January 2007
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Mary Lois Walker Morris was a Mormon woman who challenged both American ideas about marriage and the U.S. legal system. Before the Manifesto provides a glimpse into her world

Appealing for Liberty

Appealing for Liberty
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 41,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 03 September 2018
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Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the

Litigating Women

Litigating Women
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 32,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 December 2021
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This edited collection, written by both established and new researchers, reveals the experiences of litigating women across premodern Europe and captures the current state of research in this ever-growing field.