The color of the third degree [electronic resource] : racism, police torture, and civil rights in the American South, 1930-1955 / Silvan Niedermeier ; translated by Paul Cohen.

"Available for the first time in English, 'The Color of the Third Degree' uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of...

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Main Author: Niedermeier, Silvan (Author)
Other Authors: Cohen, Paul (Paul Allen) (Translator)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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The Color of the Third Degree: Racism, Police Torture, and Civil Rights in the American South, 1930–1955
Format: Electronic eBook

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