Slouching toward tyranny : mass incarceration, death sentences and racism / / Joseph B. Ingle

• Autore: Ingle Joseph B (Joseph Burton), <1946->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Algora Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.3/400973
• Soggetto topico: Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States - History; Discrimination in capital punishment - United States - History; Race discrimination - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Acknowledgments""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Warren McCleskey: The Man""; ""The Trial""; ""The Appeals""; ""Execution Day""; ""Coda to McCleskey v. Kemp""; ""Chapter I. Arrival and Beginnings (1619-1808)""; ""Chapter 2. Willie Watson, Jr.""; ""Chapter 3. The Slavery Regime (1662-1865)""; ""Chapter 4. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)""; ""Jefferson and the Other Minority: The Indians""; ""The Malevolence of Innocence ""; ""Chapter 5. The South and the Death Penalty: 1984""; ""The Context""; ""Chapter 6. The Tyranny of the Majority"" ; ""Chapter 7. The Genocide Regime (1830-1890) """"The Cherokee""; ""Indian Removal""; ""Indian Disfranchisement of Life and Liberty Continues""; ""The Plains Indians""; ""Chapter 8. Reconstruction (1866-1876)""; ""Report from the Conquered South""; ""Check and Checkmate""; ""Congress passes the Civil Rights Act over Johnson's veto ""; ""Ex-Slaves Speak""; ""Government Intervention""; ""W.E.B. Du Bois describes the forces at work during Reconstruction:""; ""The Fifteenth Amendment""; ""White Flight in the North""; ""Southern Retrenchment"" ; ""Chapter 9. The Regime of Segregation (1883-1953)""""Section I. The Supreme Court Revanchement on Civil Rights""; ""Frederick Douglass Responds to the Civil Rights Cases Decision""; ""Ida Wells Fights Back""; ""Plessy v. Ferguson""; ""The Social Reality""; ""Two Significant Political Events""; ""Spokesmen for the Negro""; ""From the New Deal to Truman""; ""Section II. The Black Response to the Segregation Regime""; ""The Truman Administration""; ""Section III. Penitentiaries""; ""The Convict Lease System""; ""A Note on Tennessee: The Coal Creek Rebellion"" ; ""Section IV. The State Farm System""""Brief History of Criminal Justice in Louisiana""; ""Peonage: Blacks Under James""; ""Angola: The Plantation Prison""; ""Huey Long and Angola""; ""Angola: Brutality Made Public""; ""Reform at Angola""; ""Chapter 10. The Beat Goes On""; ""From Angola, Louisiana to Huntsville, Texas""; ""Chapter 11. The Second Reconstruction""; ""The Public Swimming Pool""; ""School Desegregation""; ""Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott""; ""Black Resistance: Little Rock, Greensboro and Nashville""; ""A Telephone Call and a Presidential Election"" ; ""The Freedom Rides""""Perspective from High School""; ""President Lyndon Johnson""; ""Presidential Politics""; ""The Nixon Administration""; ""The Spring of 1970""; ""The War in Vietnam ""; ""The End of the Second Reconstruction""; ""Chapter 12. The Regime of Disfranchisement I (1980-92)""; ""McCleskey v. Kemp""; ""The Code""; ""Events of 1975-1995""; ""The War on Drugs""; ""The Politics of Killing""; ""The Sea Change""; ""Chapter 13. Willie Darden""; ""Chapter 14. The Regime of Disfranchisement II (2000-2008)""; ""Section I. The War on Drugs ""; ""Section II. The Courts"" ; ""The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals""
• Titolo autorizzato: Slouching toward tyranny
• ISBN: 1-62894-122-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797301103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II