A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi

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This soaking up book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, through which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers who had confessed under torture to the murder of a white planter. This situation, very similar to the notorious “Scottsboro” case in Alabama, cleared the path for the controversial MIRANDA decision thirty years later.

This book presents a dramatic story of both tragedy and triumph, one through which human nature is discovered at its easiest and at its worst, with courage, decency, and self-sacrifice contrasting sharply with bigotry, brutality, and indifference.

Ultimately, alternatively, A “Scottsboro” Case in Mississippi is an account of ways the Supreme Court came to make a precedent-setting decision enhancing the security of liberty under the Constitution.

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