Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi (Studies in the Legal History of the South)

by Christopher Waldrep (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $140.20

  Tracing the origins of Americans' ideas about trial by jury, this book provides the first detailed analysis of jury discrimination. Explaining how, in 1906, a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall was able to force the court to overturn state law and precedent at the behest of the U.S. Supreme Court, the author explores the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on America's civil rights history.