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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism by Mark Curriden, Leroy Phillips

Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism

Mark Curriden, Leroy Phillips

432 pages • first pub 1999 (view 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 innocent black man found guilty of the brutal rape of...

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