Lynching And The Law

Author : James Harmon Chadbourn
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lynching
ISBN : 9781584778295

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Lynching and the Law by James Harmon Chadbourn Pdf

This title was issued under the auspices of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. A work of great authority because it was produced by Southern jurists, it was cited frequently in the 1932 Senate hearings on lynching. Its conclusions are based in part on a comprehensive survey of over 3,700 lynchings, mostly of African-Americans, between 1889 and 1932. Chadbourn also asked 1,000 prominent Southern lawyers and legislators how they would prevent the practice. Using this data he proposes a model lynching law. "This excellent monograph and the proposed statute have unusual significance in view of the present possibility of further state and national legislation dealing with this urgent problem.": H.C. Brearley, Social Forces 12 (1933-34) 610.

Author : James Elbert Cutler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066420314

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Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States by James Elbert Cutler Pdf

"Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States" by James Elbert Cutler. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Rev. Jesse Jackson,Bruce Shapiro
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-07
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000054169029

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Legal Lynching by Rev. Jesse Jackson,Bruce Shapiro Pdf

Tracing the death penalty from its historical roots to its current application, "Legal Lynching "exposes chilling accounts of mangled justice, frequent legal error, racial and economic discrimination, and government misconduct.

Author : Ida Wells-Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9357392009

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Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida Wells-Barnett Pdf

Lynch Law in Georgia by Ida B. Wells-Barnett has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

Author : Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807023099

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On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition by Sherrilyn A. Ifill Pdf

This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and the effects of this racial trauma continue to resound. Inspired by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and drawing on techniques of restorative justice, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, offers concrete ways for communities to heal. She also issues a clarion call for communities with histories of racial violence to be proactive in facing this legacy. This revised edition speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. e new foreword from Bryan Stevenson helps readers to better understand contemporary struggles and come to terms with the legacy of racial terror in the United States. In a new afterword, Ifill reflects on the recent strides made throughout the country to break the silence surrounding lynching and to recognize the victims of violence.Th

Author : Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732648627

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Author : James Elbert Cutler,W. G. Sumner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1500750786

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Lynch - Law by James Elbert Cutler,W. G. Sumner Pdf

From the Foreword: Few people are able to read about lynch-executions, with atrocious forms of torture and cruel death, such as have occurred from time to time within ten years in this country, without a feeling of national shame. It is necessary that facts should be known and that public opinion should be corrected as to the ethics of that mode of dealing with crime. Lynch-law is a very different thing where laws and civil institutions are in full force and activity from what it is where they are wanting. It is not admissible that a self-governing democracy should plead the remissness of its own selected agents as an excuse for mob-violence. It is a disgrace to our civilization that men can be put to death by painful methods, which our laws have discarded as never suitable, and without the proofs of guilt which our laws call for in any case whatsoever. It would be a disgrace to us if amongst us men should burn a rattlesnake or a mad dog. The badness of the victim is not an element in the case at all. Torture and burning are forbidden, not because the victim is not bad enough, but because we are too good. It is on account of what we owe to ourselves that these methods are shameful to us, if we descend to them. It is evident, however, that public opinion is not educated up to this level. The reader of the present book will learn very interesting facts about the causes alleged for lynching, and about the public view of that crime. Many current errors will be corrected, and many notions which are irrelevant, although they are popularly believed to be germane and important, will be set aside.

Author : James Elbert Cutler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1331825571

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Lynch-Law an Investigation Into the History of Lynching in the United States (Classic Reprint) by James Elbert Cutler Pdf

Excerpt from Lynch-Law an Investigation Into the History of Lynching in the United States IT has been said that our country's national crime is lynching. We may be reluctant to admit our peculiarity in this respect and it may seem unpatriotic to do so, but the fact remains that lynching is a criminal practice which is peculiar to the United States. The practice whereby mobs capture individuals suspected of crime, or take them from the officers of the law, and execute them without any process at law, or break open jails and hang convicted criminals, with impunity, is to be found in no other country of a high degree of civilization. Riots and mob executions take place in other countries, but there is no such frequent administration of what may be termed popular justice which can properly be compared with lynch-law procedure in the United States. The frequency and impunity of lynchings in the United States is justly regarded as a serious and disquieting symptom of American society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Jim Conover
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Lynching
ISBN : OCLC:1176261182

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Lynch Law by Jim Conover Pdf

Author : Michael J. Pfeifer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252094651

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Lynching Beyond Dixie by Michael J. Pfeifer Pdf

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This collection of essays by prominent and rising scholars fills this gap by illuminating the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The volume adds to a more comprehensive history of American lynching and will be of interest to all readers interested in the history of violence across the varied regions of the United States. Contributors are Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.

Author : James Elbert Cutler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : LCCN:51004797

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Lynch-law by James Elbert Cutler Pdf

Author : Jim Conover,James E. Brecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Lynching
ISBN : 0966947207

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Lynch Law by Jim Conover,James E. Brecher Pdf

History of the crimes and subsequent lynching of the Berry Gang of Tazewell, County, Illinois.

Author : Jesse Jackson
Publisher : National Press Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1882605241

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Legal Lynching by Jesse Jackson Pdf

The black leader argues that the death penalty is morally wrong, an ineffective deterrent, and an instrument of a justice system that is fundamentally racist, and presents actual cases in which innocent defendants were sentenced to death. IP.

Author : Melanie S. Morrison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822371670

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Murder on Shades Mountain by Melanie S. Morrison Pdf

One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets, and dozens of black men were arrested in the largest manhunt in Jefferson County history. Weeks later, Nell identified Willie Peterson as the attacker who killed her sister Augusta and their friend Jennie Wood. With the exception of being black, Peterson bore little resemblance to the description Nell gave the police. An all-white jury convicted Peterson of murder and sentenced him to death. In Murder on Shades Mountain Melanie S. Morrison tells the gripping and tragic story of the attack and its aftermath—events that shook Birmingham to its core. Having first heard the story from her father—who dated Nell's youngest sister when he was a teenager—Morrison scoured the historical archives and documented the black-led campaigns that sought to overturn Peterson's unjust conviction, spearheaded by the NAACP and the Communist Party. The travesty of justice suffered by Peterson reveals how the judicial system could function as a lynch mob in the Jim Crow South. Murder on Shades Mountain also sheds new light on the struggle for justice in Depression-era Birmingham. This riveting narrative is a testament to the courageous predecessors of present-day movements that demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and the criminalization of black men.

Author : Daniel Kato
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190232573

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Liberalizing Lynching by Daniel Kato Pdf

Liberalizing lynching: building a new racialized state' seeks to explain the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the American liberal regime and the illiberal act of lynching. Drawing on legal cases, congressional documents, presidential correspondence, and newspaper reports, Daniel Kato explores the federal government's pattern of non-intervention regarding lynchings of African Americans from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. Although popular belief holds that the federal government was unable to address racial violence in the South, this book argues that the actions and decisions of the federal government from the 1870s through the 1960s reveal that federal inaction was not primarily a consequence of institutional or legal incapacities, but rather a decision that was supported and maintained by all three branches of the federal government. To cement his argument, Kato develops the theory of constitutional anarchy, which crystallizes the ways in which federal government had the capacity to intervene, yet relinquished its responsibility while nonetheless maintaining authority.