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Author Turner, James P., author

Title Selma and the Liuzzo murder trials : the first modern civil rights convictions / by James P. Turner
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

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Contents Intro; ; Foreword / Ari Berman; Prologue; Chapter 1. The Crusade at Selma; Chapter 2. Death in the Darkness: A Birdâ#x80;#x99;s-Eye View of the Murder; Chapter 3. Starting the Engines of Justice in Alabama; Chapter 4. Lowndes County: The Spring Term of Court; Chapter 5. Trial Day One: Selecting the Jury; Chapter 6. Building a Murder Case; Chapter 7. Trial Day Two: The Eyewitnesses Rack Up Points; Chapter 8. Trial Day Three: Murphy Takes on the Feds; Chapter 9. Trial Day Four: A Twenty-Minute Defense, a Timeless Argument; Chapter 10. Haynevilleâ#x80;#x99;s Long, Hot Summer and the Second State Trial
Chapter 11. The Federal TrialChapter 12. Selmaâ#x80;#x99;s Aftermath; Epilogue; Appendixâ#x80;#x94;Remarks of James P. Turner, Montgomery, Alabama, March 10, 1990; Index of Cases, Names, and References
Summary In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on "Bloody Sunday," troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and a triumphant address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But within hours klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider's view of the three trials that took place over the following nine months--which finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. Despite eyewitness testimony by an FBI informant who was riding in the car with the killers, two all-white state juries refused to convict. It took a team of Civil Rights Division lawyers, led by the legendary John Doar, to produce the landmark jury verdict that klansmen were no longer above the law. This is must reading today, as the voting rights won in Selma come under renewed attack
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965.
SUBJECT Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965 fast
Subject Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) fast
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2005026949
Selma to Montgomery Rights March fast
Subject Trials (Murder) -- Alabama -- Selma
Women civil rights workers -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
Women civil rights workers
Trials
Civil rights movements
Trials (Murder)
United States
Alabama -- Selma
Alabama
Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019716203
ISBN 9780472123537
047212353X
0472073745
9780472073740