Selma and the Liuzzo murder trials : the first modern civil rights convictions / by James P. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, James P., author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965.

Liuzzo, Viola.

Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.).

Selma to Montgomery Rights March.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Trials (Murder).

Southern States.

History.

Trials (Murder)--Alabama.

Alabama.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 110 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on "Bloody Sunday," troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and a triumphant address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But within hours klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider's view of the three trials that took place over the following nine months--which finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. Despite eyewitness testimony by an FBI informant who was riding in the car with the killers, two all-white state juries refused to convict. It took a team of Civil Rights Division lawyers, led by the legendary John Doar, to produce the landmark jury verdict that klansmen were no longer above the law. This is must reading today, as the voting rights won in Selma come under renewed attack.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword / Ari Berman

Prologue

Chapter 1. The Crusade at Selma

Chapter 2. Death in the Darkness: A Bird's-Eye View of the Murder

Chapter 3. Starting the Engines of Justice in Alabama

Chapter 4. Lowndes County: The Spring Term of Court

Chapter 5. Trial Day One: Selecting the Jury

Chapter 6. Building a Murder Case

Chapter 7. Trial Day Two: The Eyewitnesses Rack Up Points

Chapter 8. Trial Day Three: Murphy Takes on the Feds

Chapter 9. Trial Day Four: A Twenty-Minute Defense, a Timeless Argument

Chapter 10. Hayneville's Long, Hot Summer and the Second State Trial

Chapter 11. The Federal Trial

Chapter 12. Selma's Aftermath

Epilogue

Appendix: Remarks of James P. Turner, Montgomery, Alabama, March 10, 1990

Index of Cases, Names, and References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Has Supplement:

Supplement (work): Turner, James P., Selma and the Liuzzo murder trials. 1 online resource (Court documents, court transcripts, exhibits, and memoranda.)

ISBN:

9780472123537

047212353X

9780472073740

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.