Jim Crow's Last Stand
Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana's nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts--especially African Americans--into Louisiana's burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal challenges through the years, the law endured well after convict leasing had ended. Few were aware of its existence, let alone its original purpose. In fact, the original publication of Jim Crow's Last Stand…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-7237-7
- EAN: 9780807172377
- Produktnummer: 31002537
- Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm 295 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 295
Über den Autor
Thomas Aiello is associate professor of history and African American studies at Valdosta State University in Georgia. He is the author of The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate In the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement (Georgia, 2018), among many others. His book Jim Crow's Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts In Louisiana (LSU, 2015) helped spark a movement that constitutionally overturned the state's nonunanimous jury law. A second edition appeared in 2019. He writes lots of books. You can find out more about them at www.thomasaiellobooks.com, at facebook.com/thomas aiellobooks, or on Twitter @thomasaiello.
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