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Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders
Renee Christine Romano
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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials. But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America's racist past? Racial Reckoning investigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit ... Read more
Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials. But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America's racist past? Racial Reckoning investigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674976030
SKU
V9780674976030
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About Renee Christine Romano
Renee C. Romano is Professor of History, Comparative American Studies, and Africana Studies at Oberlin College.
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