Race, Rape, and Injustice : Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era /

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This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law students - one of whom was the author - who went south at the height of the civil rights era and helped change death penalty jurisprudence forever. The 1965 project was organized by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which sought to p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010
Otros Autores: Meltsner, Michael, 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Foerster, Barrett J., > 1942-2010.
Rape.
Race relations.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation.
Civil rights movements.
Capital punishment.
African Americans > Civil rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
Rape > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History.
Capital punishment > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > United States > History.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A showdown looms
  • Into the Southern cauldron
  • Meeting the Klan
  • The "Underground" mobilizes
  • Wolfgang fuels the assault
  • Maxwell climbs the Appellate ladder
  • Momentum builds, then stalls
  • The High Court acts
  • What the law students set in motion
  • To save a Mockingbird
  • Epilogue : Where are they now?

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