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Title: Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism by Mark Curriden, Leroy Phillips ISBN: 0-385-72082-3 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.84 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Turn of the century lynching and the Supreme Court acts.
Comment: I have read a pre-published transcript of this book,and it is an exciting incite into a fasinating event in the history of our country.l suspect like most people,including professional historians,Ihad never heard of these events.I predict a movie will be made of this book.Two African American lawyers in 1906 in a small southern town struggle desperately and with great courge to save the life of a poor illerate Negro acused and convicted of raping a white woman.He is sentenced to death by a bigoted all white jury .At the risk of their lives,the lawyers seek relief in a federal court ,and when it is denied ,they have the intestinal fortitude to seek an appeal to the U S Supreme Court in Washington and 1906 this was a world away.To the astonishment of everyone old Justice John Marshall Harlan grants the appeal and orders a stay of his execution.This''interference'' by the highist court in the land infuriates the local white supremists,and with the acquiesence of the sheriff who is up for reelection,a mob breaks into the jail and succeeds in lynching the poor Black man.On his toomb stone is chiseled his last words to the vicious mob; ''God BLESS YOU ALL.I AM AN INNOCENT MAN.When the Supreme Court reads about the lynching in the Washington Post the next day, they are furious.The Justices persuade President T Roosevelt to send the secret service in Chattanooga Tenn.the small southern town involved.Eventually,and for the first and only time in the history of the U S Supreme Court,the Justices try the sheriff his deputies and members of the mob .I will let you read about what happens in the historical and unprecedented trial.It is worth reading by history experts and by anyone interested in excellent material This one is headed for rewards.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Horrifying Look at Law and Lynching in America
Comment: Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips, Jr. in Contempt of Court look at the case of Ed Johnson, a black man given a stay of exection by Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan after he was tried and convicted for rape in a misguided and injudicial trial. The Supreme Court was ignored and the poor man was lynched which provoked the Supreme Court to the unusual action of becoming involved. This is a well written and exciting telling of the events and will carry the reader along on a wave of outrage. It is sure to be turned into an exciting film. It does not, unfortunately, tell the whole story of lynching, nor is to trying to. This one action by the Supreme Court belies the inactivity of the court and the justice system to stem the tide of lynching and racial injustice. But that story is told in other books and the reader will find this particular book a fascinating footnote on legal and racial history in America, both good and bad.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book
Comment: I ended up reading this book in a little over two days. I was quickly hooked by the fascinating and horrifying story of Ed Johnson, an indigent black man, unjustly accused and convicted by an all-white judicial system that was very typical of the south at the turn of the century. Mr. Johnson's second set of lawyers, two courageous black lawyers, from Chattanooga appeal to the US Supreme Court and set the stage for the most intriguing case to ever be heard before the court. Read the book!
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Title: 100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg ISBN: 0933121180 Publisher: Black Classic Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court by Edward Lazarus ISBN: 0140283560 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America by Marilyn Irvin Holt ISBN: 0803272650 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War by Christopher M. Sterba ISBN: 0195154886 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Gilded Age: A History in Documents by Janette Thomas Greenwood ISBN: 0195166388 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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