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Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era
Barrett J. Foerster
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Meltsner, Michael. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 organised by the NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund, which sought to prove statistically whether capital punishment in southern rape cases had been applied discriminatorily over the previous twenty years. If the research showed that a disproportionate number of African Americans convicted of raping white women had received the death penalty regardless of nonracial variables (such as the degree of violence ... Read more
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 organised by the NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund, which sought to prove statistically whether capital punishment in southern rape cases had been applied discriminatorily over the previous twenty years. If the research showed that a disproportionate number of African Americans convicted of raping white women had received the death penalty regardless of nonracial variables (such as the degree of violence ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572338623
SKU
V9781572338623
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