Author: Jesse Jackson (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Legal Lynching
Author: Jesse Jackson (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Legal Lynching
Author: Jesse Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565846852
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution. Photos.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565846852
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution. Photos.
Legal Lynching
Author: Rev. Jesse Jackson
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Tracing the death penalty from its historical roots to its current application, "Legal Lynching "exposes chilling accounts of mangled justice, frequent legal error, racial and economic discrimination, and government misconduct.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Tracing the death penalty from its historical roots to its current application, "Legal Lynching "exposes chilling accounts of mangled justice, frequent legal error, racial and economic discrimination, and government misconduct.
Lynch-law
Author: James Elbert Cutler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lynching
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lynching
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lynching and the Law
Author: James Harmon Chadbourn
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584778296
Category : Lynching
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This title was issued under the auspices of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. A work of great authority because it was produced by Southern jurists, it was cited frequently in the 1932 Senate hearings on lynching. Its conclusions are based in part on a comprehensive survey of over 3,700 lynchings, mostly of African-Americans, between 1889 and 1932. Chadbourn also asked 1,000 prominent Southern lawyers and legislators how they would prevent the practice. Using this data he proposes a model lynching law. "This excellent monograph and the proposed statute have unusual significance in view of the present possibility of further state and national legislation dealing with this urgent problem.": H.C. Brearley, Social Forces 12 (1933-34) 610.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584778296
Category : Lynching
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This title was issued under the auspices of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. A work of great authority because it was produced by Southern jurists, it was cited frequently in the 1932 Senate hearings on lynching. Its conclusions are based in part on a comprehensive survey of over 3,700 lynchings, mostly of African-Americans, between 1889 and 1932. Chadbourn also asked 1,000 prominent Southern lawyers and legislators how they would prevent the practice. Using this data he proposes a model lynching law. "This excellent monograph and the proposed statute have unusual significance in view of the present possibility of further state and national legislation dealing with this urgent problem.": H.C. Brearley, Social Forces 12 (1933-34) 610.
Murder on Shades Mountain
Author: Melanie S. Morrison
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822371677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets, and dozens of black men were arrested in the largest manhunt in Jefferson County history. Weeks later, Nell identified Willie Peterson as the attacker who killed her sister Augusta and their friend Jennie Wood. With the exception of being black, Peterson bore little resemblance to the description Nell gave the police. An all-white jury convicted Peterson of murder and sentenced him to death. In Murder on Shades Mountain Melanie S. Morrison tells the gripping and tragic story of the attack and its aftermath—events that shook Birmingham to its core. Having first heard the story from her father—who dated Nell's youngest sister when he was a teenager—Morrison scoured the historical archives and documented the black-led campaigns that sought to overturn Peterson's unjust conviction, spearheaded by the NAACP and the Communist Party. The travesty of justice suffered by Peterson reveals how the judicial system could function as a lynch mob in the Jim Crow South. Murder on Shades Mountain also sheds new light on the struggle for justice in Depression-era Birmingham. This riveting narrative is a testament to the courageous predecessors of present-day movements that demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and the criminalization of black men.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822371677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets, and dozens of black men were arrested in the largest manhunt in Jefferson County history. Weeks later, Nell identified Willie Peterson as the attacker who killed her sister Augusta and their friend Jennie Wood. With the exception of being black, Peterson bore little resemblance to the description Nell gave the police. An all-white jury convicted Peterson of murder and sentenced him to death. In Murder on Shades Mountain Melanie S. Morrison tells the gripping and tragic story of the attack and its aftermath—events that shook Birmingham to its core. Having first heard the story from her father—who dated Nell's youngest sister when he was a teenager—Morrison scoured the historical archives and documented the black-led campaigns that sought to overturn Peterson's unjust conviction, spearheaded by the NAACP and the Communist Party. The travesty of justice suffered by Peterson reveals how the judicial system could function as a lynch mob in the Jim Crow South. Murder on Shades Mountain also sheds new light on the struggle for justice in Depression-era Birmingham. This riveting narrative is a testament to the courageous predecessors of present-day movements that demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and the criminalization of black men.
Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918
Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lynching
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lynching
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732648621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732648621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Legal Lynching
Author: Jesse Jackson
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
ISBN: 9781569247068
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Provides evidence of discrimination in the administration of capital punishment
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
ISBN: 9781569247068
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Provides evidence of discrimination in the administration of capital punishment
Lynch Law in Georgia
Author: Ida Wells-Barnett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357392006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells-Barnett has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357392006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells-Barnett has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.