Litigating Across the Color Line

Litigating Across the Color Line
Author: Melissa Lambert Milewski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190249188

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.