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Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce
Duvalier's Ghosts
Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures
Modes of Production and Archaeology
Fit for War
Sustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation
The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell
Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
While bus boycotts, sit-ins, and other acts of civil disobedience were the engine of the civil rights movement, the law was a primary context. Lawyers played a key role amid profound social upheavals, and the twenty-six contributors to this volume reveal what it was like to be a southern civil rights lawyer in this era.