Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South

Abstract

Jason Morgan Ward reviews Melanie S. Morrison's Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018).

Keywords

• African American History
• Race Relations
• Politics and Government
• Criminal Justice
• Social Movements
• Industry and Labor