Things Fall Apart

For two generations, stretching from John Mercer Langston to Robert H. Terrell to Raymond Pace Alexander, to be a prominent black lawyer was to occupy an uncomfortable space in a nation that was deeply conflicted about what it expected of its minority group representatives. Suddenly, in the middle o...

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Published inRepresenting the Race pp. 154 - 180
Main Author Mack, Kenneth W
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Harvard University Press 01.05.2012
Subjects
African Americans
American minorities
Anthropology
Applied arts
Architectural elements
Architecture
Arts
Attorneys
Behavioral sciences
Black white relations
Civil rights
Courtrooms
Criminal defense attorneys
Defendants
Defense counsel
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Government
Government officials
Human societies
Interior spaces
Judges
Judicial officers
Judicial system
Labor economics
Law
Legal proceedings
Legal professionals
Legal rights
Litigants
Litigation
Litigation parties
Occupations
Political science
Prosecuting attorneys
Race relations
Rooms
Social dynamics
Sociology
Trial court proceedings
Trials
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Summary:For two generations, stretching from John Mercer Langston to Robert H. Terrell to Raymond Pace Alexander, to be a prominent black lawyer was to occupy an uncomfortable space in a nation that was deeply conflicted about what it expected of its minority group representatives. Suddenly, in the middle of the 1930s, the tension that was at the heart of that discomfort broke into the open. In Baltimore, local African Americans vented their displeasure when W. Ashbie Hawkins, perhaps the most experienced civil rights lawyer in the South, tried to speak at an open forum held by the local Elks. At
ISBN:9780674046870
0674046870
DOI:10.4159/harvard.9780674065307.c7