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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milewski, Melissa Lambert (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : 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.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Courts.
Race discrimination.
Southern States.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Genre:
Cases.
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Physical Description:ix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • 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
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Notes on methodology, sources, and findings
  • Appendix B : Tables.