Racial Violence on Trial
Subtitle: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc; ABC-CLIO
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781576072448
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; Violence in society; United States; Hate crimes; Criminal Law - General; Social Science; Children's 4-8 - Legal Reference; Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction; Trials (Hate crimes); Sociology; USA; Minorities; Criminal Law; General; Violence against; Discrimination & Racism
Notes: Back cover barcode (not identical to ISBN) 9791576072447.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Historical background; title: Cases.; title: The Colfax Massacre; title: Black resistance; title: Contempt of court; title: Brownsville; title: The NAACP; title: Continued white resistance; title: Leo Frank; title: The Waco horror; title: The U.S. Supreme Court and due process; title: The blowtorch killings at Duck Hill; title: Cultural shifts; title: Martyrs before and after 1954; title: Byron De La Beckwith; title: Impact and legacy; title: Documents.; title: The Colofax Massacre; title: United States v. Shipp; title: Leo Frank; title: "The Waco horror"; title: Moore, et al. v. Dempsey; title: The Scottsboro boys; title: Brown v. Mississippi; title: "The South kills another Negro"; title: The taxicab lynching; title: Emmett Till; title: Byron De la Beckwith; title: Key people, laws, and concepts; title: Chronology; title: Table of cases; title: Annotated bibliography