Racial Reckoning - Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2017
Authors:	Renee C. Romano
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-97603-0
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	0-674-97603-7
Barcode:	9780674976030

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