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Date of this Version

8-2024

Document Type

Presentation

Citation

Zoë Williams, Profiled Pickpockets: Seattle's Black Community & 1890s Habeas Mobilization; (Research Poster), Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

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Copyright 2024, Zoë Williams. Used by permission

Abstract

The Petitioning for Freedom project examines habeas corpus in the American West, 1812–1924 to highlight the legal mobilization of marginalized people. This study uses habeas petitions to identify Black people's response to racial profiling in Seattle.

Research poster titled Profiled Pickpockets: Seattle's Black Community & 1890s Habeas Mobilization; presented via the Digital Legal Research Lab NSF REU Site, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, August 2024.

Advisors: Katrina Jagodinsky and William Thomas

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