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

ISBN-13: 9781576072448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 311 str.

Christopher Waldrep; Charles L. Zelden

Opis

In this comprehensive overview of how the law has been used to combat racism, author Christopher Waldrep points out that the U.S. government has often promoted discrimination. A veritable history of civil rights, the story is told primarily through a discussion of key legal cases.

"Racial Violence on Trial" also presents 11 key documents gathered together for the first time, from the Supreme court's opinion in "Brown v. Mississippi" to a 1941 newspaper account entitled The South Kills Another Negro, to a 1947 "New Yorker" piece, Opera in Greenville, about a crowd of taxi drivers who killed a black man. Also included are a listing of key people, laws, and concepts; a chronology; a table of cases; and an annotated bibliography.