Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism by Leroy Phillips, Mark Curriden

Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism

Leroy Phillips, Mark Curriden

432 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

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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 ...

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