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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Coming of Freedom -- CHAPTER 2 Reconstruction and the Birth of a New Kind of Lawyer -- CHAPTER 3 The Education of the New Lawyers -- CHAPTER 4 Law Practice in Reconstruction -- CHAPTER 5 The End of Reconstruction: Purge, Exodus, and Demise -- CHAPTER 6 New Lawyers -- CHAPTER 7 Law Practice and Politics in the Gilded Age -- CHAPTER 8 A Last Stand -- CHAPTER 9 From the Great Migration to the Great Depression -- CHAPTER 10 All-White Juries and the Continuing Struggle for Voting Rights -- CHAPTER 11 The 1940s and the Civil Rights Era -- CHAPTER 12 The Modern Civil Rights Era -- CHAPTER 13 A New Generation -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX A: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968 -- APPENDIX B: Alphabetical List -- APPENDIX C: Read Law -- APPENDIX D: Law School Attended -- APPENDIX E: White Lawyers and Black Lawyers in Southern States -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the pr

Lawyer Charlie Houston is coming! -- Making of a mentor : the early years -- The calling : building lawyers for battle -- NAACP years : the legal campaign for education -- Crime stories : Scottsboro and beyond -- Labor wars : porters and presidents -- A house divided : residential discrimination -- The trials of the Hollywood Ten : guardians of the First Amendment -- Back to the laboratory : return to Maryland -- Unfinished business : the final days of Charles Hamilton Houston -- Epilogue.

From their drafting of the Declaration of Independence to their current prominent role in U.S. politics, lawyers have always been preeminent in American national life. This set examines the lives of 100 American lawyers who have distinguished themselves from colonial times to the present

Bureaucrats of Liberation narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project's network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems.The Project's history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project's different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics.

Those poor broken feet -- God's house -- Worthy wish -- Miracle-Maker -- No -- No glamour girls need apply -- All-in -- Of courage and conviction -- Her legacy to me -- Shatter the monster -- Of sacredness -- A calling -- Hurting in every way -- Incapable -- Minister in the family -- No words. Only breathing -- Voir dire -- Scared to death -- Thank you, Sir -- To simplicity -- Hair Is not like fingerprints -- Exhibit A -- Adler Heels -- If justice is to be done -- Wept.