By Kenneth W. Mack
ISBN-10: 0674046870
ISBN-13: 9780674046870
Representing the Race tells the tale of a permanent paradox of yank race kin, in the course of the prism of a collective biography of African American attorneys who labored within the period of segregation. working towards the legislation and looking justice for varied consumers, they faced a pressure among their racial identification as black women and men and their specialist identification as legal professionals. either blacks and whites demanded that those lawyers stand except their racial neighborhood as participants of the felony fraternity. but, whilst, they have been anticipated to be "authentic"-that is, in sympathy with the black lots. This conundrum, as Kenneth W. Mack exhibits, keeps to reverberate via American politics today.
Mack reorients what we suggestion we knew approximately well-known figures reminiscent of Thurgood Marshall, who rose to prominence by way of convincing neighborhood blacks and favourite whites that he was-as approximately as possible-one of them. yet he additionally introduces a little-known solid of characters to the yankee racial narrative. those contain Loren Miller, the biracial la attorney who, after studying in collage that he was once black, grew to become a Marxist critic of his fellow black legal professionals and finally a number one civil rights suggest; and Pauli Murray, a black girl who appeared neither black nor white, neither guy nor lady, who helped invent intercourse discrimination as a class of legislation. The tales of those legal professionals pose the unsettling query: what, eventually, does it suggest to "represent" a minority staff within the give-and-take of yankee legislation and politics?
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Those words were buttressed by the little-known state civil rights statutes that guaranteed nondiscriminatory access to public accommodations in many northern cities, and provided lawyers like Raymond Alexander and Chicago’s Earl Dickerson with their fi rst victories as lawyers for their racial group. They were buttressed, as well, by a powerful idea that had taken hold at the turn of the century. It was an idea that caused lawyers like Robert Terrell, who in his youth spoke forcefully in the language of natural rights, to turn in his mature years to the duties of a responsible citizen.
8 Stories of Upward Mobility The self-styled leaders of the black bar practiced in a world that produced an intense need to explain— both to themselves and especially to a black public whom they yearned to represent—how immersion in the market could be an experience of upward rather than downward mobility. 9 In fact, Raymond Pace Alexander’s and Charles Houston’s abilities to explain market success would make these young lawyers into the most influential black attorneys in the country by the end of the 1920s.
In Chicago, Earl Dickerson practiced with Edward Morris, the dean of the black Chicago bar, in his early years as a lawyer but could not replicate Morris’s success in attracting prestigious white clients to his firm. By that time, the light-skinned lawyer Ida Platt had been nearly forgotten by the city’s black community. Boston’s white voters had long ceased their former habit of electing black lawyers to public office. The last one, William H. Lewis, had won election to the state legislature in 1902.