Description
About the Author
Melissa Milewski is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex in England.
Reviews
Milewski (Univ. of Sussex, UK) offers a different story by looking at how African American litigants fared during Jim Crow in civil cases against white Southerners in former Confederate states... Outstanding for collections on US legal history, civil rights, and discrimination... Essential * CHOICE *
Milewski's book makes a substantial contribution to Southern legal history. Weaving the stories of individual litigants into the broader histories of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, this book brings ordinary African Americans to the forefront and demonstrates how they used performative strategies and exploited white notions of paternalism to navigate the legal system and win their suits. * Lydia J. Plath, The English Historical Review *
Milewski's Litigating Across the Color Line uses cross-race civil suits to tell an important story about access to justice in a society dedicated to the principle of white supremacy.As a story of black legal agency, the book makes an ambitious case in a setting that will seem surprising to many readers... Milewski shows that the kinds of suits black people litigated changed along with the kinds of arguments they made in those suits. This is a signal achievement. * Dylan C. Penningroth, Social History *
This is not an easy topic to research, and one of the pleasures of Litigating Across the Color Line is Milewski's discussion of the challenges posed by her research subject and the creative solutions upon which she settled ...[I]mpressive archival research ...[O]ffers powerful insights about dynamics of the black freedom struggle ...The reconstruction of this remarkable story is a major contribution to legal historical scholarship. * Christopher W. Schmidt, Jotwell *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190249182
Author Melissa Lambert Milewski
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 621g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 239mm * 33mm