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    The Untold Story of Ordinary Black Southerners’ Litigation During the Jim Crow Era

    Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, about a thousand black southerners sued whites who had wronged them.
    by Melissa Milewski via OUPblog on March 27, 2018

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