The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South

by Gail Williams O'Brien

Book Overview

On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848026
• ISBN13: 9780807848029
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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