- Bib ID:
- 3298757
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Weiner, Mark Stuart
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : A.A. Knopf, c2004
- xvii, 421p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0375409815
- Summary:
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"Spanning the period from colonial times to the present, Black Trials tells how the place of blacks in American society evolved through the actions of our courts of law. All of these cases compelled the legal system and the public to reconsider the place of blacks in America and, in so doing, to reconcile our founding ideals with the realities of American life. Drawing on a wealth of new archival sources, Weiner recounts the essential dramas of American civic identity - illuminating where our sense of minority rights has come from and where it might go."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
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- "Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
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