03914nam 2200649 450 991078576810332120230725033931.01-283-87379-60-8135-5207-910.36019/9780813552071(CKB)2670000000241030(EBL)862767(SSID)ssj0000787080(PQKBManifestationID)11440541(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787080(PQKBWorkID)10813479(PQKB)11430035(MiAaPQ)EBC862767(OCoLC)819379316(MdBmJHUP)muse19667(DE-B1597)530015(DE-B1597)9780813552071(Au-PeEL)EBL862767(CaPaEBR)ebr10593844(CaONFJC)MIL418629(OCoLC)854968365(OCoLC)842665776(EXLCZ)99267000000024103020140224h20112011 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrJersey justice the story of the trenton six /Cathy D. Knepper ; typesetting, Jack DonnerNew Brunswick, [New Jersey] :Rivergate Books,2011.©20111 online resource (273 p.)Includes index.0-8135-5127-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-249) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Acknowledgments --1 The Crime and the Trenton Six --2 The Trial, Prosecution --3 The Trial, Defense --4 Bessie Mitchell Finds Help --5 Second Trial, Prosecution --6 Second Trial, Defense --7 Two Men Left --Epilogue --List of Principals --Notes --Index --ABOUT THE AUTHORThe case of the Trenton Six attracted international attention in its time (1948–1952) and was once known as the “northern Scottsboro Boys case.” Yet, there is no memory of it. The shame of racism evident in the case has been nearly erased from the public record. Now, historian Cathy D. Knepper takes us back to the courtroom to make us aware of this shocking chapter in American history. Jersey Justice: The Story of the Trenton Six begins in 1948 when William Horner, an elderly junk dealer, was murdered in his downtown Trenton shop. Over a two-week period, six local African American men were arrested and charged with collectively killing Horner. Violating every rule in the book, the Trenton police held the six men in incommunicado detention, without warrants, and threatened them until they confessed. At the end of the trial the all-white jury sentenced the six men to die in the electric chair. That might have been the end of the story were it not for the tireless efforts of Bessie Mitchell, the sister of one of the accused men. Undaunted by the refusal of the NAACP and the ACLU to help appeal the conviction of the Trenton Six, Mitchell enlisted the aid of the Civil Rights Congress, ultimately taking the case as far as the New Jersey Supreme Court. Along the way, the Trenton Six garnered the attention and involvement of many prominent activists, politicians, and artists, including Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pete Seeger, Arthur Miller, and Albert Einstein. Jersey Justice brings to light a shameful moment in our nation’s history, but it also tells the story of a personal battle for social justice that changed America.Trenton Six Trial, Trenton, N.J., 1948-1951Trials (Murder)New JerseyTrentonTrenton Six Trial, Trenton, N.J., 1948-1951.Trials (Murder)345.749/6602523Knepper Cathy D1499891Donner Jack1499892MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785768103321Jersey justice3726324UNINA