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Racial Reckoning : Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders, Paperback / softback Book

Racial Reckoning : Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders Paperback / softback

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Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s.

But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers.

Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials.

But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America’s racist past?

Racial Reckoning investigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit these decades-old crimes. “[A] timely and significant work…Romano brilliantly demystifies the false binary of villainous white men like Beckwith or Edgar Ray Killen who represent vestiges of a violent racial past with a more enlightened color-blind society…Considering the current partisan and racial divide over the prosecution of police shootings of unarmed black men, this book is a must-read for historians, legal analysts, and journalists interested in understanding the larger meanings of civil rights or racially explosive trials in America.”—Chanelle Rose, American Historical Review

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