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Fact Sheet; "Legal Lynching" -- The Case of the Trenton Six by (Civil Rights) - 1949
by (Civil Rights)
Fact Sheet; "Legal Lynching" -- The Case of the Trenton Six
by (Civil Rights)
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Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress, 1949. Some areas of light offsetting; folded; one pencil mark, still clean and fresh.. Two legal-sized mimeograph pages, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 inches, stapled in one corner. Detailed recounting of events in this now nearly-forgotten civil rights case from New Jersey. The six defendants had been held for four days without counsel and signed coerced confessions that they repudiated in court. All six were convicted of murder, despite a complete lack of evidence beyond the confessions. Many dimensions of misconduct marked this case from the first arrests following the original crime in 1948 and going through numerous appeals. It was taken up as a cause by civil rights groups -- Thurgood Marshall was involved as a lawyer for the NAACP -- and leftist organizations, but probably because it was in a northern state, it slipped into obscurity as the civil rights movement progressed.
- Bookseller Locus Solus Rare Books (US)
- Book Condition Used - Some areas of light offsetting; folded; one pencil mark, still clean and fresh.
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher Civil Rights Congress
- Place of Publication Los Angeles
- Date Published 1949