Bibliograph

All for civil rights, African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968, W. Lewis Burke

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All for civil rights, African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968, W. Lewis Burke

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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collective biography

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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portraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All for civil rights

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

960031183

Responsibility statement

W. Lewis Burke

Series statement

Southern legal studies

Sub title

African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968

Summary

"Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, at least 168 black lawyers were admitted to the South Carolina bar. All for Civil Rights is the first book-length study devoted to those lawyers' struggles and achievements in the state that had the largest black population in the country, by percentage, until 1930--and that was a majority black state through 1920. Examining court processes, trials, and life stories of the lawyers, Burke offers a comprehensive analysis of African American lawyers' engagement with the legal system.... [He] argues ... that from the earliest days after the Civil War to the heyday of the modern civil rights movement, the story of the black lawyer in South Carolina is the story of the civil rights lawyer in the Deep South."--Page [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The coming of freedom -- Reconstruction and the birth of a new kind of lawyer -- The education of the new lawyers -- Law practice in Reconstruction -- The end of Reconstruction: purge, exodus, and demise -- New lawyers -- Law practice and politics in the Gilded Age -- A last stand -- From the Great Migration to the Great Depression -- All-white juries and the continuing struggle for voting rights -- The 1940s and the civil rights era -- The modern civil rights era -- A new generation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968 -- Appendix B. Alphabetical list -- Appendix C. Read law -- Appendix D. Law school attended -- Appendix E. White lawyers and black lawyers in southern states

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African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968

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