TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niedermeier,Silvan
AU  - Cohen,Paul
TI  - The color of the third degree: racism, police torture, and civil rights in the American South, 1930-1955 
SN  - 9781469652993
AV  - E185.61 .N4913 2019
U1  - 305.800975 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Police brutality
KW  - Torture
KW  - African American prisoners
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Racism
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Droits
KW  - États-Unis (Sud)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Brutalités policières
KW  - Prisonniers noirs américains
KW  - Violence envers
KW  - Racisme
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - African American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Translation of: Rassismus und Bürgerrechte : Polizeifolter im Süden der USA, 1930-1955. Hamburg : Hamburger Edition, 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index; Police torture and "legal lynchings" in the American South -- Torture and African American courtroom testimony -- The NAACP campaign against "forced confessions" -- Selective public outrage: the Quintar South case -- The investigations by the federal government
N2  - "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 racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy. In an effort to deter unruly white mobs, as well as oppress black communities, white southern law officers violently extorted confessions and testimony from black suspects and defendants in jail cells and police stations to secure speedy convictions. In response, black citizens and the NAACP fought to expose these brutal practices through individual action, local organizing, and litigation. In spite of these efforts, police torture remained a widespread, powerful form of racial control and suppression well into the late twentieth century"--
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