Journal of Southern Legal History

Volume VII, Numbers 1 & 2
1999

Table of Contents

Foreword
by W. Rhett Tanner
Page xi

Preface
by Charles R. Adams III
Page xvii

IN MEMORIAM

Lawrence Benjamin Custer
by Tom Watson Brown
Page 1

ARTICLES

How a Founder Becomes Forgotten: Chief Justice John Rutledge, Slavery, and the Jay Treaty
by Wythe Holt
Page 5

The Arkansas Supreme Court and the Civil War
by Logan Scott Stafford
Page 37

ORAL HISTORY

Introduction to An Oral Interview with William Augustus Bootle
by Yonna Windham Shaw
Page 115

An Oral Interview with Judge W. A. Bootle
Interview conducted by Manley F. Brown and Edward Lukemire
Page 117

Judge Bootle's Interview: How We Did It
by Manley F. Brown
Page 201

GATE CITY BAR ASSOCIATION

On the Occasion of the Golden Anniversary of the
Gate City Bar Association
by Charles S. Johnson, III
Page 203

Whatever Happened to the Voting Rights Act?
Or, Restoring the White Privilege
by Laughlin McDonald
Page 207

A TEACHER'S AFTERTHOUGHTS

The Wisdom of Youth
by Joseph E. Claxton
Page 247