Jailed for life for being black
Subtitle: the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
By: Bill Swan ; with a foreword by Ken Klonsky
Series: Real justice; Real justice
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781459406650; 9781459406667
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Judicial error; Racisme; Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Administration of Criminal justice; Biographies; Justice penale; Prisoners; Administration; Racism; Boxers (Sports); Prisonniers; Boxeurs; Erreur judiciaire; Juvenile literature; Biography
Other titles: Hurricane Carter :
Description: "Rubin Carter was in and out of reformatories and prisons from the age of twelve. At twenty-four, he became a winning professional boxer and was turning his life around. But Carter was also very vocal about racism in the local New Jersey police force. In 1966, local policemen arrested Carter and a friend for a triple murder. The two were convicted and sent to jail for life. Carter spent nearly twenty years in jail, proclaiming his innocence. A teen from Brooklyn, Lesra Martin, heard Carter's story and believed he was innocent. He and a small group of Canadian lawyers contacted Carter and began working with Carter's lawyers in New York to get him exonerated. In 1985, a judge released Carter, ruling that Carter's conviction had been based not on evidence, but on racism. Carter moved to Canada in 1985, where until his death in 2014 he worked helping others prove that they had been wrongfully convicted."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142), filmography, and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: The shooting; title: Night on the town; title: Crime scene; title: He's my brother; title: Boxing boast; title: A title shot; title: Bello's story; title: The trial; title: Life in prison; title: Enter the stars; title: The second trial; title: The hole in the wall; title: Lesra's letter; title: Free at last; title: Rescuing others; title: After the bell: Fighting for others ; Hurricane: the movie ; Dr. Rubin Carter ; The heroes.