Milewski, Litigating Across the Color Line

Over at the legal history blog Melissa Milewski spent last month talking about her new book Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights, which is about African Americans in who litigate against white people during the era of Jim Crow.  This is an exciting book and an important project.  You can also read about it in the November 2017 issue of The American Historian and also find some important teaching resources at her website.  Litigating Across the Color Line has some obvious connections to the growing literature on free people of African descent who litigated in the southern courts before the Civil War — and even the occasional enslaved person who sued (or had a white person sue on their behalf) in the pre-Civil War south.