Melissa Milewski
Lecturer in History and American Studies at the University of Sussex
Melissa Milewski is a lecturer in History and American Studies at the University of Sussex in England. Her work examines race and the law in U.S. History. Her book Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights was published by Oxford University Press in November 2017. Follow her on Twitter @MilewskiMelissa and learn more about her research and find teaching materials related to her book at https://www.melissamilewski.com/.
Articles by
From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
In the following article Melissa Milewski, a graduate student in history at New York University, describes her research which has...
Fighting Jim Crow in the 19th Century South: The Untold Story
Most historians have considered the period between 1877, the end of Reconstruction, and 1900 to be “The Nadir” or the...
