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Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era

Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era

Foerster, Barrett J.
Meltsner, Michael

Paperback

Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1621908194
ISBN13: 9781621908197
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Jul 5 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

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 to prove statistically whether capital punishment in southern rape cases had been applied discriminatorily over the previous twenty years. If the research showed that a disproportionate number of African Americans convicted of raping white women had received the death penalty regardless of nonracial variables (such as the degree of violence used), then capital punishment in the South could be abolished as a clear violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

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