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Racial reckoning : prosecuting America's civil rights murders /

Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of changed in 1994, and more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in over a dozen trials. Yet, as Renee C. Romano shows, addressing the nation's troub...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Romano, Renee Christine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Exhuming the Past
  • 1. Crimes and Complicity during the Civil Rights Era
  • 2. "Jim Crow" Justice
  • 3. Reopening Civil Rights-Era Murder Cases
  • 4. Civil Rights Crimes in the Courtroom
  • 5. Civil Rights Trials and Narratives of Redemption
  • 6. From Legal Justice to Social Justice
  • Conclusion: "We Are All Mississippians"
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.