Bureaucrats of Liberation: Southern African and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era

Myra Ann Houser

doi:10.24415/9789400603783

Zusammenfassung

Bureaucrats of Liberation

narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project’s network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems. The Project’s history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project’s different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage: 1/2020
Copyrightjahr: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-345-2
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0378-3
Verlag: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Reihe: Critical, Connected Histories
Band: 2
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 344
Produkttyp: Monographie

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1. Abbreviations Kein Zugriff
2. Notes on Terminology Kein Zugriff
3. Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 17 - 28
1. Chapter 1: Two Regions, (Nearly) One Legal Tradition Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter 2: Settings Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter 3: Beginning(s) of the Project Kein Zugriff
1. Chapter 4: Cause Lawyering and Litigation in the 1970s Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter 5: Black Consciousness in South Africa and the US Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter 6: Supportive Projects: Black Women Against Apartheid Kein Zugriff
1. Chapter 7: Prosecuting Frenzies and Deaths in the 1980s Kein Zugriff
2. Chapter 8: US Activism and the Free South Africa Movement Kein Zugriff
3. Chapter 9: Namibia, Sanctions, and Apartheid’s Death Grip Kein Zugriff
1. Chapter 10: Transitions During the 1990s Kein Zugriff
Epilogue Kein Zugriff Seiten 243 - 248
Appendix A: Southern Africa Project Trials and Inquiries Kein Zugriff Seiten 249 - 250
Appendix B: Southern Africa Project Correspondent Lawyers Kein Zugriff Seiten 251 - 252
Notes Kein Zugriff Seiten 253 - 300
References Kein Zugriff Seiten 301 - 320
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 321 - Backcover

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