Mob Intent on Death, A - The NAACP and the Arkansas Riot Cases
Entry/Object ID
L9999.999.3380
Description
A Mob Intent on Death -the NAACP and the Arkansas Riot Cases is about a landmark Fourteenth Amendment case and one of the NAACP's first campaigns of national litigation. Sixty-seven blacks were sentenced to prison and twelve others to the electric chair. It took five years of bitter failure, rescheduled execution deadlines, numerous trials and three appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, but in the end all went free. It was a great victory for the right of a fair trial, the right not to be deprived of life and liberty without due process.
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Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Civil rights, Discrimination, Segregation, Racism, Government
Search Terms
NAACP, Arkansas Riot Cases, 1919 Phillips County Riot, Legal Defense, Hall Extradition Fight, Moore v. Dempsey, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court, Criminal System
