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Selma and the Liuzzo murder trials : the first modern civil rights convictions /
In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on "Bloody Sunday," troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2018]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Intro; ; Foreword / Ari Berman; Prologue; Chapter 1. The Crusade at Selma; Chapter 2. Death in the Darkness: A Birdâ#x80;#x99;s-Eye View of the Murder; Chapter 3. Starting the Engines of Justice in Alabama; Chapter 4. Lowndes County: The Spring Term of Court; Chapter 5. Trial Day One: Selecting the Jury; Chapter 6. Building a Murder Case; Chapter 7. Trial Day Two: The Eyewitnesses Rack Up Points; Chapter 8. Trial Day Three: Murphy Takes on the Feds; Chapter 9. Trial Day Four: A Twenty-Minute Defense, a Timeless Argument; Chapter 10. Haynevilleâ#x80;#x99;s Long, Hot Summer and the Second State Trial.
- Chapter 11. The Federal TrialChapter 12. Selmaâ#x80;#x99;s Aftermath; Epilogue; Appendixâ#x80;#x94;Remarks of James P. Turner, Montgomery, Alabama, March 10, 1990; Index of Cases, Names, and References.