Representing the race
Subtitle: the creation of the civil rights lawyer
By: by Kenneth W. Mack
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780674046870
Subjects: African American lawyers; Civil rights movements; Cause lawyers; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The idea of the representative Negro; title: Racial identity and the marketplace for lawyers; title: The role of the courtroom in an era of segregation; title: A shifting racial identity in a southern courtroom; title: Young Thurgood Marshall joins the brotherhood of the bar; title: A woman in a fraternity of lawyers; title: Things fall apart; title: The strange journey of Loren Miller; title: Pauli Murray searches for self, and finds a new idea; title: A lawyer as the face of integration in postwar America.