| Description |
xvii, 421 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Let us make a tryal : Joseph Hanno and Cotton Mather, Boston, 1721 -- This villainous conspiracy : the great Negro plot, New York, 1741 -- Air too pure : Somerset's case, London, 1772 -- I should not turn her out : Crandall v. Connecticut, Hartford, 1833 -- All we want is make us free : the Amistad, Washington, 1841 -- Christian witness : Jones v. Van Zandt, Cincinnati, 1847 -- The law of blood : John Brown, Virginia, 1859 -- Original purity : the Ku Klux Klan trials, South Carolina, 1871 -- In the nature of things : the civil rights cases, California, 1883, and Plessy v. Ferguson, Louisiana, 1896 -- Black, white, and red : the Scottsboro boys, Alabama, 1931 -- Hearts and minds : Brown v. Board of Education, Kansas, 1954 -- To die for the people : Huey Newton, California, 1968 -- Confirmation : Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, Washington, 1991 -- Statistics and citizenship : Mumia Abu-Jamal, Philadelphia, 2001 |
| Summary |
"Spanning the period from colonial times to the present, Black Trials tells how the place of blacks in American society evolved through the actions of our courts of law. All of these cases compelled the legal system and the public to reconsider the place of blacks in America and, in so doing, to reconcile our founding ideals with the realities of American life. Drawing on a wealth of new archival sources, Weiner recounts the essential dramas of American civic identity - illuminating where our sense of minority rights has come from and where it might go."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
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| LC no. |
2004040860 |
| ISBN |
0375409815 |
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