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Author Houser, Myra Ann, author.

Title Bureaucrats of liberation : Southern African and American lawyers and clients during the apartheid era / Myra Ann Houser
Published [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Critical, connected histories
Critical, connected histories.
Contents Two regions, (nearly) one legal tradition -- Settings -- Beginning(s) of the project -- Cause lawyering and litigation in the 1970s -- Black consciousness in South Africa and the US -- Supportive projects : Black Women Against Apartheid -- Prosecuting frenzies and deaths in the 1980s -- US activism and the Free South Africa Movement -- Namibia, sanctions, and apartheid's death grip -- Transitions during the 1990s
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 29, 2020)
Subject Southern Africa Project (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) -- History
SUBJECT Southern Africa Project (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) fast
Subject Civil rights -- South Africa
Apartheid -- South Africa.
Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History
Lawyers -- Political activity -- United States
Lawyers -- Political activity -- South Africa
Lawyers -- Political activity -- Namibia
African history.
Civil rights and citizenship.
HISTORY / General
Anti-apartheid movements
Apartheid
Civil rights
Lawyers -- Political activity
Racism and racial discrimination.
African history.
Namibia
South Africa
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9400603789
9789400603783