Race, rape, and injustice :: documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era /
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 p...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. Targeting eleven states, the students cautiously made their way past suspicious court clerks, lawyers, and judges to secure the necessary data from dusty courthouse records. Trying to attract as little attention as possible, they managed - amazingly - to complete their task without suffering serious harm at the hands of white supremacists. Their findings then went to University of Pennsylvania criminologist Marvin Wolfgang, who compiled and analyzed the data for use in court challenges to death penalty convictions. The result was powerful evidence that thousands of jurors had voted on racial grounds in rape cases. This book not only tells Barrett Foerster's and his teammates story but also examines how the findings were used before a U.S. Supreme Court resistant to numbers-based arguments and reluctant to admit that the justice system had executed hundreds of men because of their skin color. Most important, it illuminates the role the project played in the landmark Furman v. Georgia case, which led to a four-year cessation of capital punishment and a more limited set of death laws aimed at constraining racial discrimination. A Virginia native who studied law at UCLA, Barrett J. Foerster (1942-2010) was a judge in the Superior Court in Imperial County, California. MICHAEL MELTSNER is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University. During the 1960s, he was first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. His books include The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer and Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781572339224 1572339225 |
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| spelling | Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013001528 Race, rape, and injustice : documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era / Barrett J. Foerster ; edited and with a foreword by Michael Meltsner. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012. 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Targeting eleven states, the students cautiously made their way past suspicious court clerks, lawyers, and judges to secure the necessary data from dusty courthouse records. Trying to attract as little attention as possible, they managed - amazingly - to complete their task without suffering serious harm at the hands of white supremacists. Their findings then went to University of Pennsylvania criminologist Marvin Wolfgang, who compiled and analyzed the data for use in court challenges to death penalty convictions. The result was powerful evidence that thousands of jurors had voted on racial grounds in rape cases. This book not only tells Barrett Foerster's and his teammates story but also examines how the findings were used before a U.S. Supreme Court resistant to numbers-based arguments and reluctant to admit that the justice system had executed hundreds of men because of their skin color. Most important, it illuminates the role the project played in the landmark Furman v. Georgia case, which led to a four-year cessation of capital punishment and a more limited set of death laws aimed at constraining racial discrimination. A Virginia native who studied law at UCLA, Barrett J. Foerster (1942-2010) was a judge in the Superior Court in Imperial County, California. MICHAEL MELTSNER is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University. During the 1960s, he was first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. His books include The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer and Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment. A showdown looms -- Into the Southern cauldron -- Meeting the Klan -- The "Underground" mobilizes -- Wolfgang fuels the assault -- Maxwell climbs the Appellate ladder -- Momentum builds, then stalls -- The High Court acts -- What the law students set in motion -- To save a Mockingbird -- Epilogue : Where are they now? Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010. Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010 fast Race discrimination Law and legislation United States History. African Americans Civil rights History. Capital punishment United States History. African Americans Civil rights Southern States History. Rape Southern States History. Civil rights movements United States History. United States Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Noirs américains Droits Histoire. Peine de mort États-Unis Histoire. Noirs américains Droits États-Unis (Sud) Histoire. Mouvements des droits de l'homme États-Unis Histoire. États-Unis Relations raciales. LAW Criminal Law General. bisacsh BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General. bisacsh African Americans Civil rights fast Capital punishment fast Civil rights movements fast Race discrimination Law and legislation fast Race relations fast Rape fast Southern States fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq History fast Meltsner, Michael, 1937- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059936 Print version: 9781572338623 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=501769 Volltext |
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| title_full | Race, rape, and injustice : documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era / Barrett J. Foerster ; edited and with a foreword by Michael Meltsner. |
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