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 in | Representing the Race pp. 154 - 180 |
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Main Author | |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
Harvard University Press
01.05.2012
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Online Access | Get full text |
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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 |
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ISBN: | 9780674046870 0674046870 |
DOI: | 10.4159/harvard.9780674065307.c7 |