The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South

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Label

The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South

Title remainder

race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South

Statement of responsibility

Gail Williams O'Brien

Creator

• O'Brien, Gail Williams

Author

• O'Brien, Gail Williams

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

Genre

• History

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

Member of

• John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Action

digitized

Awards note

American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society, 2000.

Cataloging source

OCLCE

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