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Author Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964-

Title Representing the race : the creation of the civil rights lawyer / by Kenneth W. Mack.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject African American lawyers -- Biography.
African American lawyers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Cause lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Cause lawyers.
United States.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964- Representing the race. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012 9780674046870 (DLC) 2011040342 (OCoLC)756377488
ISBN 9780674069565 (electronic book)
0674069560 (electronic book)
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0674065301 (electronic book)
9780674046870
0674046870

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