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U.S. segregation created a host of paradoxes, among them the black civil rights lawyer, explains Mack (law, Harvard Law Sch.). Building on a series of law review articles, he offers a collective biography of a group of segregation-era African American attorneys. He poses, for example, the dilemma of John Mercer Langston (1829–97), Thurgood Marshall (1908–93), Loren Miller (1903–67), and Pauli Murray (1910–85), whose persona...Log In or Sign Up to Read More