Getting away with murder: the twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the u.s. senate
Auteur :
Holloway, Vanessa A.
Éditeur :
University Press of America
ISBN :
9780761864325
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2014
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,3 x 1,0 cm
Poids :
191 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
During the early twentieth century, nearly 200 anti-lynching proposals were introduced in the United States Congress. Getting Away with Murder argues that constitutional defenses for these proposals were merely excuses for Southern Democrats’ racist attitudes toward black Americans and for giving private citizens a license to murder.