Racial reckoning
Subtitle: prosecuting America's civil rights murders
By: Renee C. Romano
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780674050426
Subjects: Race relations; Trials (Murder); Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Exhuming the past; title: Crimes and complicity during the civil rights era; title: "Jim Crow" justice; title: Reopening civil rights-era murder cases; title: Civil rights crimes in the courtroom; title: Civil rights trials and narratives of redemption; title: From legal justice to social justice; title: Conclusion: "We are all Mississippians".