Add to ORKGOn March 30, 1959, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions which set the stage for a new era in police-community relations. In Abbate v. United States. I and Bartkus v. Illinois,2 the Court gave the U.S. Justice Department the power to prosecute police officers under federal civil rights laws for acts of racist violence - even when they were already under state or local investigation - without fear of violating states\u27 rights. These decisions - had they been enforced - would have been welcome news at the New York headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). An organization dedicated to the eradication of lynching and other forms of extra-judicial violence against black persons, the NAACP lob...
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On March 30, 1959, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions which set the stage for a new era in ...
The United States today has refocused its attention on its continuing struggles with civil rights an...
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After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, blacks in the South lost most of the rights achieved dur...
The Civil Rights Act of 1871 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §1983 and commonly referred to as Section 1983) ...
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the ...
On March 30, 1959, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions which set the stage for a new era in ...
The United States today has refocused its attention on its continuing struggles with civil rights an...
Once upon a time, back before the Warren Court, criminal procedure and racial justice were adjacent ...
In 1904, leaders of three major white fraternal orders launched a nationally coordinated legislative...
Prior to and during World War II the Black Communities of Miami suffered from a vast crime wave . T...
The litigation campaign that led to McCleskey v. Kemp did not begin as an anti-death-penalty effort....
Police unions have garnered the attention of the media and some scholars in recent years. That atten...
The constitutional law of state criminal procedure was born between the First and Second World Wars....
Although Houston had scored a minor victory in the 1935 Murray v Pearson case which allowed African ...
After the ruling of Brown V. The Board of Education that declared segregated public school...
In the classical era of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, activists and prot...
Recaps the events of the case and describes how police, prosecutors, and others concerned with risi...
After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, blacks in the South lost most of the rights achieved dur...
The Civil Rights Act of 1871 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §1983 and commonly referred to as Section 1983) ...
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the ...