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Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched A Hundred Years of Federalism

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0385720823
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Collection: 
Part of Stetson Kennedy Library
Author: 
Curriden, Mark
Author: 
Phillips, Leroy
Publisher: 
Anchor Books
Year: 
1999

A little-known chapter in American legal history gets expert, well-deserved treatment by Curriden, legal affairs writer for the Dallas Morning News, and Phillips, a Tennessee trial attorney. The exciting narrative concerns the legal and social aftermath of the 1906 trial of Ed Johnson, a black man, for the rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, in Tennessee.


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