"Penningroth's conclusions emerge from an epic research agenda.... Before the Movement presents an original and provocative account of how civil law was experienced by Black citizens and how their 'legal lives' changed over time . . . [an] ambitious, stimulating, and provocative book." --Eric Foner, New York Review of Books Winner of the Beveridge Award, American Historical Association Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association Finalist for the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Order ...
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"Penningroth's conclusions emerge from an epic research agenda.... Before the Movement presents an original and provocative account of how civil law was experienced by Black citizens and how their 'legal lives' changed over time . . . [an] ambitious, stimulating, and provocative book." --Eric Foner, New York Review of Books Winner of the Beveridge Award, American Historical Association Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association Finalist for the Cundill History Prize Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association Winner of the John Philip Reid Award, American Society for Legal History Winner of the Charles Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award Winner of the Scribes Book Award Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History Shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Shortlisted for the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize, Columbia Journalism School A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.
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