Litigating across the color line : civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / Melissa Milewski.
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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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
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[2018]
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Physical Description: | ix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |