Race, rape, and injustice : documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era / Barrett J. Foerster ; edited and with a foreword by Michael Meltsner.

"This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law students--one of whom was the author--who went south at the height of the civil rights era and helped change death penalty jurisprudence forever. The 1965 project was organized by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which sought...

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Main Author: Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010
Other Authors: Meltsner, Michael, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • A showdown looms
  • Into the Southern cauldron
  • Meeting the Klan
  • The "underground" mobilizes
  • Wolfgang fuels the assault
  • Maxwell climbs the appellate ladder
  • Momentum builds, then stalls
  • The high court acts
  • What the law students set in motion
  • To save a mockingbird.