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Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders
Harvard University Press, 2014 Cloth: 978-0-674-05042-6 | Paper: 978-0-674-97603-0 | eISBN: 978-0-674-73617-7 Library of Congress Classification KF221.M8R66 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 345.7302523
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 these decades-old crimes. See other books on: Civil rights | Civil rights movements | Legal History | Romano, Renee C. | Trials (Murder) See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
Harvard University Press, 2014
Cloth: 978-0-674-05042-6
Paper: 978-0-674-97603-0
eISBN: 978-0-674-73617-7
Cloth: 978-0-674-05042-6
Paper: 978-0-674-97603-0
eISBN: 978-0-674-73617-7
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 these decades-old crimes.
“[A] timely and significant work…Romano brilliantly demystifies the false binary of villainous white men like Beckwith or Edgar Ray Killen who represent vestiges of a violent racial past with a more enlightened color-blind society…Considering the current partisan and racial divide over the prosecution of police shootings of unarmed black men, this book is a must-read for historians, legal analysts, and journalists interested in understanding the larger meanings of civil rights or racially explosive trials in America.”
—Chanelle Rose, American Historical Review
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