Richard C Cortner: 1 book
A Scottsboro Case in Mississippi
The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2005
This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers...
