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Book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia written by West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the State Librarian

Download or read book Report of the State Librarian written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.

Book Legislative Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of

Download or read book Legislative Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Allegheny Triumph of Justice

Download or read book An Allegheny Triumph of Justice written by Kathleen Jackson Costantini and published by 35th Star Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Williams, the African American teacher at the Coketon Colored School in Tucker County, West Virginia, in the 1890s, bravely confronted an attempt to rob black children of their educational rights. In the burgeoning Jim Crow era that legally sanctioned black second-class citizenship, Carrie courageously challenged the all white Tucker County Board of Education when it shortened the school term for African American children. Her battlefield was a courtroom and her champion was John Robert Clifford, the first African American lawyer admitted to the bar in West Virginia. Until recently, the national importance of this landmark litigation has remained obscured, largely due to the earlier U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy vs. Ferguson. Carrie Williams’ victory provided a steady ray of hope from atop the Allegheny Mountains during the long fight for equal rights for African Americans. This is Carrie’s story, a true American heroic narrative.

Book Report of cases determined by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Download or read book Report of cases determined by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library written by Pennsylvania State Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appealing for Liberty

    Appealing for Liberty

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  • Author : Loren Schweninger
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-03
  • ISBN : 0190664304
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Appealing for Liberty written by Loren Schweninger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more than 2,000 suits and from the testimony of more than 4,000 plaintiffs from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Through the petitions, evidence, and testimony introduced in these court proceedings, the lives of the enslaved come sharply and poignantly into focus, as do many other aspects of southern society such as the efforts to preserve and re-unite black families. This book depicts in graphic terms, the pain, suffering, fears, and trepidations of the plaintiffs while discussing the legal system—lawyers, judges, juries, and testimony—that made judgments on their "causes," as the suits were often called. Arguments for freedom were diverse: slaves brought suits claiming they had been freed in wills and deeds, were born of free mothers, were descendants of free white women or Indian women; they charged that they were illegally imported to some states or were residents of the free states and territories. Those who testified on their behalf, usually against leaders of their communities, were generally white. So too were the lawyers who took these cases, many of them men of prominence, such as Francis Scott Key. More often than not, these men were slave owners themselves-- complicating our understanding of race relations in the antebellum period. A majority of the cases examined here were not appealed, nor did they create important judicial precedent. Indeed, most of the cases ended at the county, circuit, or district court level of various southern states. Yet the narratives of both those who gained their freedom and those who failed to do so, and the issues their suits raised, shed a bold and timely light on the history of race and liberty in the "land of the free."

Book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States

Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.