Racial Reckoning : : Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders / / Renee C. Romano.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 16 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Exhuming the Past
- 1. Crimes and Complicity during the Civil Rights Era
- 2. “Jim Crow” Justice
- 3. Reopening Civil Rights–Era Murder Cases
- 4. Civil Rights Crimes in the Courtroom
- 5. Civil Rights Trials and Narratives of Redemption
- 6. From Legal Justice to Social Justice
- Conclusion: “We Are All Mississippians”
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index