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...

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Author / Creator: Foerster, Barrett J., 1942-2010.
Other Authors / Creators:Meltsner, Michael, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Imprint: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012.
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
Table of Contents:
  • 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?