Luther Haynes and Dorothy Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated, and Nicholas Lemann

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1993-12-17

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POSNER, Chief Judge. Luther Haynes and his wife, Dorothy Haynes née Johnson, appeal from the dismissal on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment of their suit against Nicholas Lemann, the author of a highly praised, bestselling book of social and political history called The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America (1991), and…

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