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Bureaucrats of Liberation
Southern African and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era
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English
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2020
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"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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Contributor: Myra Ann Houser
Myra Ann Houser is assistant professor of history and coordinator of the BA in Social Justice Studies at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. She has published in Atlantic Studies, Critical Arts, History in Africa, and Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, as well as within edited volumes.
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Abbreviations
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Notes on Terminology
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Chapter 1: Two Regions, (Nearly) One Legal Tradition
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Chapter 2 Settings
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Chapter 3 Beginning(s) of the Project
61 - Part Two 1970s
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Chapter 4: Cause Lawyering and Litigation in the 1970s
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Chapter 5: Black Consciousness in South Africa and the US
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Chapter 6: Supportive Projects: Black Women Against Apartheid
143 - Part Three 1980s
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Chapter 7: Prosecuting Frenzies and Deaths in the 1980s
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Chapter 8: US Activism and the Free South Africa Movement
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Chapter 9: Namibia, Sanctions, and Apartheid’s Death Grip
207 - Part Four 1990s and Antecedents
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Chapter 10: Transitions During the 1990s
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Epilogue
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Appendix A: Southern Africa Project Trials and Inquiries
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Appendix B: Southern Africa Project Correspondent Lawyers
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Notes
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References
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Index
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9789400603783
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Keywords for this book
Anti-apartheid; South Africa; Namibia; United States; John Kennedy; Robert Kennedy; Nelson Mandela; Steven Biko; Gay McDougall; Millard Arnold
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
