On the laps of gods : the Red Summer of 1919 and the struggle for justice that remade a nation / Robert Whitaker.
2008
KFA4170.5.R5 W55 2008 (Mapit)
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Author
Title
On the laps of gods : the Red Summer of 1919 and the struggle for justice that remade a nation / Robert Whitaker.
Edition
1st ed.
Imprint
New York : Crown Publishers, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Description
386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
A union in Hoop Spur
The path to Hoop Spur
The Red Summer of 1919
Helena
The killing fields
They shot them down like rabbits
Whitewash
The longest train ride ever
A lesson made plain
Scipio Africanus Jones
The constitutional rights of a race
I wring my hands and cry
All hope gone
Great writ of Liberty
Taft and his court
Hardly less than revolutionary
Thunderbolt from a clear sky
Birth of a new nation.
The path to Hoop Spur
The Red Summer of 1919
Helena
The killing fields
They shot them down like rabbits
Whitewash
The longest train ride ever
A lesson made plain
Scipio Africanus Jones
The constitutional rights of a race
I wring my hands and cry
All hope gone
Great writ of Liberty
Taft and his court
Hardly less than revolutionary
Thunderbolt from a clear sky
Birth of a new nation.
Summary
September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. Racial fighting had erupted in 25 cities. Deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers formed a union to sue their white landowners, who had cheated them for years. What happened next has long been shrouded in controversy. Over several days, posses and federal troops gunned down more than 100 men, women, and children. White authorities arrested more than 300 black farmers, and in brief trials, all-white juries sentenced twelve union leaders to the electric chair. And then, a lawyer from Little Rock stepped forward. Scipio Africanus Jones, born a slave, joined with the NAACP to mount an appeal in which he argued that his clients' constitutional rights to a fair trial had been violated. Never before had the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a criminal verdict in a state court because the proceedings had been unfair.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KFA4170.5.R5 W55 2008
Language
English
ISBN
9780307339829
0307339823
0307339823
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