Title Litigating Across the Color Line : Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (361 pages) Contents Cover -- Litigating Across the Color Line -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part I Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners, 1861â#x80;#x93;â#x80;#x8B;1899 -- 1. A Revolution in the Courts -- 2. How to Litigate a Case Against a White Southerner -- 3. Challenging Whitesâ#x80;#x99; Bequests -- 4. The Law of Contracts and Property -- Part II Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners, 1900â#x80;#x93;â#x80;#x8B;1950 -- 5. The New South and the Law -- 6. Confronting Fraud Through the Courts -- 7. The Law of Bodily Injury 8. Fighting for Rights in the CourtsEpilogue -- Appendix A: Notes on Methodology, Sources, and Findings -- Appendix B: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 Genre/Form History Trials, litigation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190249199 0190249196 9780190249212 0190249218

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