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The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South /

"On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran who had fought with a white Army veteran and radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, Gail Williams (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1999].
Colección:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Columbia story
  • The bottom and its brokers
  • War, esteem, efficacy, and entitlement
  • The making and unmaking of mobocracy
  • The politics of policing
  • Grand (jury) maneuvers and the politics of exclusion
  • Outsiders and the politics of justice.