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9781576072448

Racial Violence on Trial : A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents

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    9781576072448

  • ISBN10:

    1576072444

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Abc-Clio Inc

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Summary

An examination of the historical experience of African Americans as a case study of America's legacy of racial violence.

Author Biography

Christopher Waldrep holds the Jamie and Phyllis Passer Chair in American History at San Francisco State University

Table of Contents

Series Foreword vii
Preface xi
PART ONE
Introduction
3(16)
Historical Background
19(18)
Cases
37(64)
The Colfax Massacre
41(10)
Black Resistance
51(3)
Contempt of Court
54(2)
Brownsville
56(5)
The NAACP
61(2)
Continued White Resistance
63(3)
Leo Frank
66(2)
The Waco Horror
68(2)
The U.S. Supreme Court and Due Process
70(6)
The Blowtorch Killings at Duck Hill
76(2)
Cultural Shifts
78(10)
Martyrs before and after 1954
88(6)
Byron De La Beckwith
94(7)
Impact and Legacy
101(202)
PART TWO
Documents
113(140)
The Colfax Massacre
113(28)
United States v. Shipp
141(8)
Leo Frank
149(7)
``The Waco Horror,''
156(11)
Moore, et al. v. Dempsey
167(9)
The Scottsboro Boys
176(10)
Brown v. Mississippi
186(6)
``The South Kills Another Negro,''
192(11)
The Taxicab Lynching
203(35)
Emmett Till
238(9)
Byron De La Beckwith
247(6)
Key People, Laws, and Concepts
253(16)
Chronology
269(16)
Table of Cases
285(2)
Annotated Bibliography
287(16)
Articles and Books
287(13)
Internet Sources
300(3)
Index 303(8)
About the Author 311

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