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...group includes prominent lawyers such as Johnnie Cochran, Alexander J. Pires, who won a $1 billion lawsuit for black farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and J.L. Chestnutt, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s former attorney...
...Professor Ogletree is a man of immense respect in the legal community. He is a wealth of knowledge and experience, as well as someone who has great prestige in the legal profession," Chestnutt said. Ogletree could not be reached for comment last week...
...Chestnutt said the legal team faces enormous obstacles, from figuring out whom to sue to figuring out whom...
...case is "complex almost beyond imagination," Chestnutt said. "Who would you sue? Is it the federal government, the states, businesses that have profited from slavery? Even the statute of limitations becomes an issue. Was slavery too long...
...importantly, in this novel we saw the grandiloquent gesture vs. the monumental emptiness of America's action. Yet one had to wait until the end of the century to see this question posed in fuller novelistic terms. For it was in his work The Marrow of Tradition that Charles Chestnutt suggested that ingrained racism--that man-hating ideology which lay at the very vital of the national character--was poisoning the nature of national life. He proposed filial recon-ciliation as the essential ingredient for the healing of the American spirit...