Sherrilyn Ifill: 3 books
On the Courthouse Lawn
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Nearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960. Over forty years later, Sherrilyn Ifill's On the Courthouse Lawn examines the numerous ways that this racial trauma still resounds across the United States. While the lynchings and their immediate aftermath were devastating, the little-known...
A Perilous Path
Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Huge names: Stevenson’s Just Mercy has sold over 400,000 copies, Lynch was Attorney General of the US from 2015 to 2017, Sherrilyn Ifill is the current head of the NAACP Legal Defense fund, the force behind the landmark Texas Voting Rights Act lawsuit, Tony Thompson is a well-known, well-connected,...
On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition
Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and the effects of this...