Representing the race : the creation of the civil rights lawyer / by Kenneth W. Mack.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780674069565
- 0674069560
- 9780674065307
- 0674065301
- African American lawyers -- Biography
- Cause lawyers -- United States -- Biography
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Avocats noirs américains -- Biographies
- Avocats engagés -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Mouvements des droits de l'homme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges
- LAW -- Civil Rights
- African American lawyers
- Cause lawyers
- Civil rights movements
- United States
- 1900-1999
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- KF372 .M33 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The idea of the representative Negro -- Racial identity and the marketplace for lawyers -- The role of the courtroom in an era of segregation -- A shifting racial identity in a southern courtroom -- Young Thurgood Marshall joins the brotherhood of the bar -- A woman in a fraternity of lawyers -- Things fall apart -- The strange journey of Loren Miller -- Pauli Murray searches for self, and finds a new idea -- A lawyer as the face of integration in postwar America.
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Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers.
In English.
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