TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knepper,Cathy D.
TI  - Jersey Justice: The Story of the Trenton Six 
SN  - 9780813552071
AV  - KF224.T74 .K547eb
U1  - 345.749/6602523 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Trenton Six Trial, Trenton, N.J., 1948-1951
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Trenton
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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 AUTHOR; restricted access
N2  - The 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813552071
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813552071
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813552071/original
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