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Paper by Attorney Penelope Andrews at the Seminar on the Legal Aspects of Apartheid sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities of the American Bar Association and its Standing Committee on World Order Under Law. The paper discusses strategies adopted by civil rights lawyers in the United States and compares the general legal environment within which civil rights lawyers operate in the U.S. and South Africa. The paper discusses discriminatory laws, the statue books, apartheid laws, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedoms, Parliament, the United States Supreme Court, legislation, the White Community, Justice Didcott, Justice Corbett, Justice Goldstone, black South Africans, Thurgood Marshall, black judges, segregation, the Black Lawyers Association, the Democratic Lawyers Association, Lawyers for Human Rights, Griggith Mxenge, the black legal community, the Natal Law Society, detention, solitary confinement, the security police, John Dugard, racial bias in sentencing, killing a black man, pass laws, Pricilla Jana, arrested for trespassing at a police station, and Mathews Phosa.

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Impediments Facing Black Lawyers and Lawyers who Defend Political Prisoners in South Africa

SEMINAR ON THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF APARTHEID

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