All for civil rights : African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968 / W. Lewis Burke.
2017
KF354.S6 B87 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
All for civil rights : African American lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968 / W. Lewis Burke.
Imprint
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Description
x, 346 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Southern legal studies.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
"'The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina, ' writes [the author], 'is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.' Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted to the South Carolina bar. [This book is] 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, [the author] offers an...analysis of black lawyers' engagement with the legal system. Some of that study is set in the courts and legislative halls, for the South Carolina bar once had the highest percentage of black lawyers of any southern state, and South Carolina was one of only two states to ever have a black majority legislature. However, Burke also tells who these lawyers were (some were former slaves, while others had backgrounds in the church, the military, or journalism); where they came from (nonnatives came from as close as Georgia and as far away as Barbados); and how they were educated, largely through apprenticeship. [The author] 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. Although All for Civil Rights focuses specifically on South Carolinians, its argument about the legal shift in black personhood from the slave era to the 1960s resonates throughout the South."-- Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF354.S6 B87 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780820350981 hardback alkaline paper
0820350982 hardback alkaline paper
9780820350998 (ebook)
0820350990
9780820350998
0820350982 hardback alkaline paper
9780820350998 (ebook)
0820350990
9780820350998
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