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Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism

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On this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an lost sight of Supreme Court decision that changed perpetually how justice is carried out in the USA.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was once the innocent black man found guilty of the brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced to die in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, not even a part of the unique defense, appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay of execution, and the stay, incredibly, was once granted. Frenzied with rage on the decision, locals responded by lynching Johnson, and what ensued was once a breathtaking whirlwind of groundbreaking legal action whose import, Thurgood Marshall would claim, “has never been fully explained.” Provocative, thorough, and gripping, Contempt of Court is a long-overdue take a look at events that clearly depict the unusual and tenuous relationship between justice and the law.

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