The Color of the Law: Race, Violence and Justice in the Post-world War II South (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

by Gail Williams O ' Brien (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $48.42

  Drawing on oral interviews and an array of written sources, this is the dramatic story of the 1946 Columbia race riot , the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. It illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the USA.