{"product_id":"racial-reckoning-prosecuting-americas-civil-rights-murders-paperback","title":"Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenee C. Romano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials. But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America's racist past? \u003ci\u003eRacial Reckoning \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit these decades-old crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" A] timely and significant work...Romano brilliantly demystifies the false binary of villainous white men like Beckwith or Edgar Ray Killen who represent vestiges of a violent racial past with a more enlightened color-blind society...Considering the current partisan and racial divide over the prosecution of police shootings of unarmed black men, this book is a must-read for historians, legal analysts, and journalists interested in understanding the larger meanings of civil rights or racially explosive trials in America.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chanelle Rose, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723418865727,"sku":"9780674976030","price":69.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/47884181f9a0d08f9cc93b76eac2dacb.webp?v=1765099097","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/racial-reckoning-prosecuting-americas-civil-rights-murders-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}