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100 1  Foerster, Barrett J.,|d1942-2010.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/no2013001528 
245 10 Race, rape, and injustice :|bdocumenting and challenging 
       death penalty cases in the civil rights era /|cBarrett J. 
       Foerster ; edited and with a foreword by Michael Meltsner.
264  1 Knoxville :|bUniversity of Tennessee Press,|c2012. 
300    1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages) 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law 
       students & mdash;one of whom was the author & mdash;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 research showed that a disproportionate number of 
       African Americans convicted of raping white women had 
       received the death penalty regardless of nonracial 
       variables (such as the degree of violence used), then 
       capital punishment in the South could be abolished as a 
       clear violation of the Fourteenth Amendment & rsquo;s 
       Equal Protection Clause. Targeting eleven states, the 
       students cautiously made their way past suspicious court 
       clerks, lawyers, and judges to secure the necessary data 
       from dusty courthouse records. Trying to attract as little
       attention as possible, they managed & mdash;amazingly & 
       mdash;to complete their task without suffering serious 
       harm at the hands of white supremacists. Their findings 
       then went to University of Pennsylvania criminologist 
       Marvin Wolfgang, who compiled and analyzed the data for 
       use in court challenges to death penalty convictions. The 
       result was powerful evidence that thousands of jurors had 
       voted on racial grounds in rape cases. This book not only 
       tells Barrett Foerster & rsquo;s and his teammates story 
       but also examines how the findings were used before a U.S.
       Supreme Court resistant to numbers-based arguments and 
       reluctant to admit that the justice system had executed 
       hundreds of men because of their skin color. Most 
       important, it illuminates the role the project played in 
       the landmark Furman v. Georgia case, which led to a four-
       year cessation of capital punishment and a more limited 
       set of death laws aimed at constraining racial 
       discrimination. A Virginia native who studied law at UCLA,
       Barrett J. Foerster (1942 & ndash;2010) was a judge in the
       Superior Court in Imperial County, California. MICHAEL 
       MELTSNER is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews 
       Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University.
       During the 1960s, he was first assistant counsel to the 
       NAACP Legal Defense Fund. His books include The Making of 
       a Civil Rights Lawyer and Cruel and Unusual: The Supreme 
       Court and Capital Punishment. 
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700 1  Meltsner, Michael,|d1937-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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