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Racial violence on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents / Christopher Waldrep.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
- Series:
- On trial
- 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:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2001]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A case study of America's legacy of racial violence, focused on the powerful experience of African Americans.
- Contents:
- Historical background
- The Colfax Massacre
- Black resistance
- Contempt of court
- Brownsville
- The NAACP
- Continued white resistance
- Leo Frank
- The Waco horror
- The U.S. Supreme Court and due process
- The blowtorch killings at Duck Hill
- Cultural shifts
- Martyrs before and after 1954
- Byron De La Beckwith
- Impact and legacy
- United States v. Shipp
- Moore, et al. v. Dempsey
- The Scottsboro boys
- Brown v. Mississippi
- "The South kills another Negro"
- The taxicab lynching
- Emmett Till
- Key people, laws, and concepts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781576077191
- 1576077195
- Publisher Number:
- 99990106820
- 9791576072447 (back cover barcode)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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