The condemnation of Little B
By: Elaine Brown
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780807009741
Subjects: Race relations; Murder; Murder in mass media; Public opinion; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; African American juvenile delinquents
Description: Brown examines the public's reaction to the murder trial of Michael Lewis, known as Little B, who was senteced to life in prison at the age of fourteen. Brown looks closest at the reaction of Atlanta's African American community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-391).
Table of contents: title: Scapegoat --; title: Black Man-Child --; title: The Murder Case --; title: Evil in the City --; title: Shadow of the Dome --; title: Atlanta: Hub of the New South --; title: The Bluff --; title: Little B --; title: Superpredator or Outcast? --; title: The Root of This Evil --; title: Monticello Revisited --; title: Post-Emancipation Fight for Freedom --; title: This Little Light Extinguished --; title: New Age Racism --; title: Marching from Monticello --; title: The Abandonment --; title: The Real Crime --; title: Trompe L'oeil --; title: The Innocence of Little B --; title: The Appeal.