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Author Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-

Title Racial violence on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents / Christopher Waldrep.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  345.7302 W167R    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Series On trial
On trial.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-301) and index.
Contents Historical background -- The Colfax Massacre -- Black resistance -- Contempt of court -- Brownsville -- The NAACP -- Continued white resistance -- Leo Frank -- The Waco horror -- The U.S. Supreme Court and due process -- The blowtorch killings at Duck Hill -- Cultural shifts -- Martyrs before and after 1954 -- Byron De La Beckwith -- Impact and legacy -- United States v. Shipp -- Moore, et al. v. Dempsey -- The Scottsboro boys -- Brown v. Mississippi -- "The South kills another Negro" -- The taxicab lynching -- Emmett Till -- Key people, laws, and concepts.
Subject Trials (Hate crimes) -- United States.
Hate crimes -- United States.
Minorities -- Violence against -- United States.
Indexed Term Procesos (crímenes raciales) Estados Unidos.
Crimenes raciales Estados Unidos.
Minorías Estados Unidos.
ISBN 1576072444 hardback alkaline paper
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