Race, rape, and injustice (Record no. 32267)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781572339224 |
| International Standard Book Number | 1572339225 |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781572338623 (hardback) |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 1572338628 (hardcover) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MdBmJHUP |
| Transcribing agency | MdBmJHUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KF4757 |
| Item number | .R35 2012 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 345.73/0253208996073075 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Race, rape, and injustice |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | documenting and challenging death penalty cases in the civil rights era / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | [edited by] Michael Meltsner. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Knoxville : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University of Tennessee Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012. |
| Place of manufacture | (Baltimore, Md. : |
| Manufacturer | Project MUSE, |
| Date of manufacture | 2015) |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "In this memoir of a distilling moment in the history of civil rights, Barrett Foerster writes about the summer he spent in the South as a law student in 1965 as part of a research team searching for evidence of racial bias in rape cases with convictions resulting in the death penalty. Specifically, he and his fellow law students navigated tense and, at times, violent threats in order to conduct undercover research on these cases as part of a larger study on capital punishment. This study was later a key component of a landmark Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia, which resulted in a moratorium on executions throughout the country"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| Summary, etc. | "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. "-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Civil rights movements |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Rape |
| Geographic subdivision | Southern States |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | African Americans |
| General subdivision | Civil rights |
| Geographic subdivision | Southern States |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Capital punishment |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | African Americans |
| General subdivision | Civil rights |
| -- | History. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Race discrimination |
| General subdivision | Law and legislation |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| -- | History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Race relations. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Foerster, Barrett J., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1942-2010. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Meltsner, Michael, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1937- |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Project Muse. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | Full text available: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781572339224/">https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781572339224/</a> |
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