A "Scottsboro" case in Mississippi : the Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi / by Richard C. Cortner.

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 sharec...

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