Involuntary heroes
Subtitle: Hurricane Katrina's impact on civil liberties
By: Mitchell F. Crusto
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781611631814
Subjects: Emergency management; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Civil rights; Law and legislation; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Hurricane Katrina and civil liberties; title: Petri dish for rights in crisis; title: Shooting survivors; title: Seizing firearms; title: Denying travel to safety; title: Disavowing rape; title: Exposing people to toxins; title: Firing public school teachers; title: Imprisoning innocents; title: Abandoning elders; title: Epilogue : protecting rights always.