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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780385720823
In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an
overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice
is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocnet black man found guilty of
the brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced to
die in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, not even part of
the original defense, appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay of
execution, and the stay, incredibly, was granted. Frenzied with
rage at the deision, locals responded by lynching Johnson, and what
ensued was a breathtaking whirlwind of groundbreaking legal action
whose import, Thurgood Marshall would claim, “has never been fully
explained.” Provocative, thorough, and gripping, Contempt of Court
is a long-overdue look at events that clearly depict the peculiar
and tenuous relationship between justice and the law.
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