Litigating Across the Color Line

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Litigating Across the Color Line is written by Melissa Milewski and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019024920X (ISBN 10) and 9780190249205 (ISBN 13).

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.