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Author : Charles W. Simmons
Release : 1985
Genre : African American criminals
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Book Synopsis Virginia Justice and the Martinsville Seven by : Charles W. Simmons
Download or read book Virginia Justice and the Martinsville Seven written by Charles W. Simmons. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric W. Rise
Release : 1995-05-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Martinsville Seven by : Eric W. Rise
Download or read book The Martinsville Seven written by Eric W. Rise. This book was released on 1995-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the case of the Martinsville Seven, a group of young black men executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman in Martinsville, Virginia. Covering every aspect of the proceedings from the commission of the crime through two appeals, Eric W. Rise reexamines common assumptions about the administration of justice in the South. Although the defendants confessed to the crime, racial prejudice undeniably contributed to their eventual executions. Rise highlights the efforts of the attorneys who, rather than focusing on procedural errors, directly attacked the discriminatory application of the death penalty. The Martinsville Seven case was the first instance in which statistical evidence was used to prove systematic discrimination against blacks in capital cases.
Author : Eric Walter Rise
Release : 1992
Genre : Capital punishment
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Book Synopsis The Martinsville Seven and Southern Justice by : Eric Walter Rise
Download or read book The Martinsville Seven and Southern Justice written by Eric Walter Rise. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Dean Plemmons
Release : 1996
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis The Martinsville Seven by : Michael Dean Plemmons
Download or read book The Martinsville Seven written by Michael Dean Plemmons. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danielle L. McGuire
Release : 2011-10-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis At the Dark End of the Street by : Danielle L. McGuire
Download or read book At the Dark End of the Street written by Danielle L. McGuire. This book was released on 2011-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. "An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country.” —The Washington Post Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written. In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer—Rosa Parks—to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.
