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- catalog abstract ""On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran who had fought with a white Army veteran and radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them." "Drawing on extensive oral history interviews and a rich array of written records - including federal grand jury records acquired through a court order, a trial transcript thought not to exist, and a transcript of the interrogation of two black suspects just before they were killed in jail - Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot" and the events that followed." "O'Brien sees the Columbia events as emblematic of the shift in emphasis during the 1940s from racially motivated mob violence, prevalent for decades in the American South, to increased confrontations between African Americans and the criminal justice system, a nationwide phenomenon."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11064294.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran who had fought with a white Army veteran and radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them." "Drawing on extensive oral history interviews and a rich array of written records - including federal grand jury records acquired through a court order, a trial transcript thought not to exist, and a transcript of the interrogation of two black suspects just before they were killed in jail - Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot" and the events that followed." "O'Brien sees the Columbia events as emblematic of the shift in emphasis during the 1940s from racially motivated mob violence, prevalent for decades in the American South, to increased confrontations between African Americans and the criminal justice system, a nationwide phenomenon."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.".
- catalog description "The Columbia story -- The bottom and its brokers -- War, esteem, efficacy, and entitlement -- The making and unmaking of mobocracy -- The politics of policing -- Grand (jury) maneuvers and the politics of exclusion -- Outsiders and the politics of justice.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 334 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Color of the law.".
- catalog identifier "0807824755 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807848026 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Color of the law.".
- catalog isPartOf "The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Color of the law.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations History 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog subject "364/.089/96073075 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Discrimination in criminal justice administration Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "HV9955.S63 O27 1999".
- catalog subject "Mobs Southern States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Columbia story -- The bottom and its brokers -- War, esteem, efficacy, and entitlement -- The making and unmaking of mobocracy -- The politics of policing -- Grand (jury) maneuvers and the politics of exclusion -- Outsiders and the politics of justice.".
- catalog title "The color of the law : race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II South / Gail Williams O'Brien.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".