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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Braving Jim Crow to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug, the Legal Left, and Civil Rights Innovation, 1948–1951
Beteiligte:
Zarnow, Leandra
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2008
Erschienen in:Law & Social Inquiry
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/j.1747-4469.2008.00130.x
ISSN:
0897-6546;
1747-4469
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<jats:p><jats:italic>This article considers the role of Bella Abzug, lead counsel for Willie McGee from 1948–1951, in shaping the defense of this Cold War era Mississippi rape case. Representing McGee left an indelible mark on Abzug: she made her first trip south, wrote her first Supreme Court petition, and faced her first death threat. Participation in the Left legal bar—especially the National Lawyers Guild and Left feminist circles—shaped Abzug's legal consciousness as she redirected the McGee defense significantly in 1950. By joining race and sex, Abzug's legal argument zeroed in on the taboo of interracial sexual relations at the heart of Southern rape cases, thereby exposing the innermost sexual color line. She urged the courts and cause lawyers—albeit unsuccessfully—to pursue a more radical civil rights agenda than outlawing public segregation, as ultimately achieved in</jats:italic>Brown v. Board of Education<jats:italic>(1954), and typically recognized in Cold War civil rights scholarshi</jats:italic>p.</jats:p>