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Author Niedermeier, Silvan, author.

Title The color of the third degree : racism, police torture, and civil rights in the American South, 1930-1955 / Silvan Niedermeier ; translated by Paul Cohen
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Police torture and "legal lynchings" in the American South -- Torture and African American courtroom testimony -- The NAACP campaign against "forced confessions" -- Selective public outrage: the Quintar South case -- The investigations by the federal government
Summary "Available for the first time in English, 'The Color of the Third Degree' uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy. In an effort to deter unruly white mobs, as well as oppress black communities, white southern law officers violently extorted confessions and testimony from black suspects and defendants in jail cells and police stations to secure speedy convictions. In response, black citizens and the NAACP fought to expose these brutal practices through individual action, local organizing, and litigation. In spite of these efforts, police torture remained a widespread, powerful form of racial control and suppression well into the late twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translation of: Rassismus und Bürgerrechte : Polizeifolter im Süden der USA, 1930-1955. Hamburg : Hamburger Edition, 2014
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English and German
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2019)
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Police brutality -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Torture -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
African American prisoners -- Violence against -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Racism against Black people -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Racism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- African American.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Police brutality
Race relations
Racism
Torture
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Paul (Paul Allen), translator.
ISBN 9781469652993
1469652994
9781469652986
1469652986
Other Titles Rassismus und Bürgerrechte. English