A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi by Cortner, Richard C.

A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781578068159)

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A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi by Cortner, Richard C.

A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi

$35.00
A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi by Cortner, Richard C.

A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown V. Mississippi

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers who had confessed under torture to the murder of a white planter. This case, similar to the notorious "Scottsboro" case in Alabama, paved the way for the controversial MIRANDA decision thirty years later.

This book presents a dramatic story of both tragedy and triumph, one in which human nature is revealed at its best and at its worst, with courage, decency, and self-sacrifice contrasting sharply with bigotry, brutality, and indifference.

Ultimately, however, A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi is an account of how the Supreme Court came to make a precedent-setting decision enhancing the protection of liberty under the Constitution.

Author: Richard C. Cortner
ISBN-10: 1578068150
ISBN-13: 9781578068159
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2005
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.40d
By Richard C. Cortner
By Richard C. Cortner
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Richard C. Cortner was a professor of political science at the University of Arizona in 1966. He earned his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1956 and his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1958. He obtained his PhD in 1961 at the University of Wisconsin.

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