Murder in Mississippi by Howard Ball
Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney - idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, the landmark legal dimensions of their murder case have until now remained largely lost. Howard Ball reminds us just how problematic the prosecution of the murderers - all members of the KKK - actually was. When the State of Mississippi failed to indict them, the U.S. tried to prosecute the case in federal district court. The judge there, however, ruled that the federal government had no jurisdiction and so dismissed the case. When the U.S. appealed, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the lower court decision, claiming that federal authorities did indeed have the power to police civil rights violations in any state. United States v. Price (1967) thus produced a landmark decision that signaled a seismic shift in American legal history and race relations.-
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
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The Vietnam War on Trial
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Mendez V. Westminster
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Capital Punishment on Trial
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New York Times V. Sullivan
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Lizzie Borden on Trial
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The Miracle Case
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Lochner V.New York
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The Japanese American Cases
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The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson
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Gibbons V. Ogden
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Roe V. Wade
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The Detroit School Busing Case
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Fugitive Slave on Trial
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The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause
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Religious Freedom and Indian Rights
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No Ordinary Landmark
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Sovereignty on Trial
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Not for Sale
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The Great Yazoo Lands Sale
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The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
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The Woman Who Dared to Vote
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The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case
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Speaking Freely
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Obscenity Rules
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Griswold V. Connecticut
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Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry
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The Supreme Court and Tribal Gaming
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Plessy V. Ferguson
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The Battle Over School Prayer
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Clergy Malpractice in America
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The Sodomy Cases
Howard Ball, presently professor of law at Vermont Law School and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, is a veteran of the civil rights movement and for many years taught at Mississippi State University. He is the author of two dozen books including The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action (see page 51) and A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780700613151 |
| ISBN 10 | 0700613153 |
| Title | Murder in Mississippi |
| Author | Howard Ball |
| Series | Landmark Law Cases And American Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
| Year published | 2004-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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