Author: Melissa Lambert Milewski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 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.