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Contempt of Court : The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
Contempt of Court The TurnoftheCentury Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism
Author: Mark Curriden, Leroy Phillips
In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States. — In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocnet black man found guilty of the brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced to die in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385720823
ISBN-10: 0385720823
Publication Date: 2/20/2001
Pages: 432
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