The Resource The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South, Gail Williams O'Brien
The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South, Gail Williams O'Brien
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- Summary
- "On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran who had fought with a white Army veteran and radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them." "Drawing on extensive oral history interviews and a rich array of written records - including federal grand jury records acquired through a court order, a trial transcript thought not to exist, and a transcript of the interrogation of two black suspects just before they were killed in jail - Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot" and the events that followed." "O'Brien sees the Columbia events as emblematic of the shift in emphasis during the 1940s from racially motivated mob violence, prevalent for decades in the American South, to increased confrontations between African Americans and the criminal justice system, a nationwide phenomenon."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
- Contents
-
- The Columbia story
- The bottom and its brokers
- War, esteem, efficacy, and entitlement
- The making and unmaking of mobocracy
- The politics of policing
- Grand (jury) maneuvers and the politics of exclusion
- Outsiders and the politics of justice
- Isbn
- 9781469603421
- Label
- The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South
- Title
- The color of the law
- Title remainder
- race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South
- Statement of responsibility
- Gail Williams O'Brien
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Diskriminierung
- History
- Justiz
- Mobs
- Mobs -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Race relations
- Rassendiscriminatie
- Rassenonlusten
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- Schwarze
- Social Sciences
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Southern States
- Southern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Strafrecht
- USA -- Südstaaten
- 1900-1999
- African Americans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran who had fought with a white Army veteran and radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them." "Drawing on extensive oral history interviews and a rich array of written records - including federal grand jury records acquired through a court order, a trial transcript thought not to exist, and a transcript of the interrogation of two black suspects just before they were killed in jail - Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot" and the events that followed." "O'Brien sees the Columbia events as emblematic of the shift in emphasis during the 1940s from racially motivated mob violence, prevalent for decades in the American South, to increased confrontations between African Americans and the criminal justice system, a nationwide phenomenon."--Jacket
- Action
- digitized
- Awards note
- American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society, 2000.
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- O'Brien, Gail Williams
- Dewey number
- 364/.089/96073075
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- HV9955.S63
- LC item number
- O27 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- African Americans
- Mobs
- Southern States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- African Americans
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Mobs
- Race relations
- Southern States
- Diskriminierung
- USA
- Rassendiscriminatie
- Rassenonlusten
- Strafrecht
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Social Sciences
- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
- Justiz
- Schwarze
- Label
- The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South, Gail Williams O'Brien
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Columbia story -- The bottom and its brokers -- War, esteem, efficacy, and entitlement -- The making and unmaking of mobocracy -- The politics of policing -- Grand (jury) maneuvers and the politics of exclusion -- Outsiders and the politics of justice
- Control code
- 607208220
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781469603421
- Lccn
- 98030827
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt610h3
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)607208220
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South, Gail Williams O'Brien
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Columbia story -- The bottom and its brokers -- War, esteem, efficacy, and entitlement -- The making and unmaking of mobocracy -- The politics of policing -- Grand (jury) maneuvers and the politics of exclusion -- Outsiders and the politics of justice
- Control code
- 607208220
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781469603421
- Lccn
- 98030827
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt610h3
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)607208220
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Diskriminierung
- History
- Justiz
- Mobs
- Mobs -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Race relations
- Rassendiscriminatie
- Rassenonlusten
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- Schwarze
- Social Sciences
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Southern States
- Southern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Strafrecht
- USA -- Südstaaten
- 1900-1999
- African Americans
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