Race, Rape, and Injustice
Meltsner, Michael / Foerster, Barrett J![Race, Rape, and Injustice](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/436/43610280/CHSBZCOP0343610280.jpg)
This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law students--one of whom was the author--who went south at the height of the civil rights era and helped change death penalty jurisprudence forever. The 1965 project was organized by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which sought to prove statistically whether capital punishment in southern rape cases had been applied discriminatorily over the previous twenty years. If the researc...