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Mississippi black paper : fifty-seven Negro and white citizens' testimony of police brutality, the breakdown of law and order and the corruption of justice in Mississippi / foreword by Reinhold Niebuhr ; introduction by Hodding Carter III.
LIBRA HV8145.M7 M5
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LIBRA Rare HV8145.M7 M5 1965 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Mississippi.
- Police.
- Law enforcement--Mississippi.
- Law enforcement.
- African Americans--Mississippi.
- African Americans.
- Mississippi.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (University of Pennsylvania)
- Physical Description:
- 28 unnumbered pages, 92 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Fifty-seven Negro and white citizens' testimony of police brutality
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, 1965.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining papers.
- "The fifty-seven testimonies on the following pages were chosen from a total of approximately 257 for the variety and cruelty of the harassment and brutality they describe. Before printing them the publishers secured the written permission of each of the victims ..."--Publisher's Note.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "First Printing".
- OCLC:
- 20498782
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