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Racial violence on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents / Christopher Waldrep.
LIBRA KF221.M8 W35 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
- Series:
- On trial
- On trial series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Hate crimes)--United States.
- Trials (Hate crimes).
- Hate crimes--United States.
- Hate crimes.
- Minorities--Violence against.
- Minorities.
- United States.
- Minorities--Violence against--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Inc., [2001]
- Summary:
- A case study of America's legacy of racial violence, focused on the powerful experience of African Americans.
- Contents:
- 2 Historical Background 19
- 3 Cases 37
- The Colfax Massacre 41
- Black Resistance 51
- Contempt of Court 54
- Brownsville 56
- The NAACP 61
- Continued White Resistance 63
- Leo Frank 66
- The Waco Horror 68
- The U.S. Supreme Court and Due Process 70
- The Blowtorch Killings at Duck Hill 76
- Cultural Shifts 78
- Martyrs before and after 1954 88
- Byron De La Beckwith 94
- 4 Impact and Legacy 101
- Documents 113
- The Colfax Massacre 113
- United States v. Shipp 141
- Leo Frank 149
- "The Waco Horror" 156
- Moore, et al. v. Dempsey 167
- The Scottsboro Boys 176
- Brown v. Mississippi 186
- "The South Kills Another Negro" 192
- The Taxicab Lynching 203
- Emmett Till 238
- Byron De La Beckwith 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1576072444
- OCLC:
- 47443764
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