The color of the third degree : racism, police torture, and civil rights in the American South, 1930-1955 - ECU Libraries Catalog

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

Author/creator	Niedermeier, Silvan author.
Other author/creator	Cohen, Paul (Paul Allen), translator.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description	213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	African Americans--Civil rights --Southern States --History --20th century. Police brutality--Southern States --History --20th century. Torture--Southern States --History --20th century. African American prisoners--Violence against --Southern States --History --20th century. Racism against Black people--Southern States --History --20th century. Southern States--Race relations --History --20th century.

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Uniform title	Rassismus und Bürgerrechte. English
Contents	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.
Abstract	"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." -- From publisher's description.
General note	Translation of: Rassismus und Bürgerrechte : Polizeifolter im Süden der USA, 1930-1955. Hamburg : Hamburger Edition, 2014.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2019027153
ISBN	9781469652962 hardcover
ISBN	146965296X hardcover
ISBN	9781469652979 paperback
ISBN	1469652978 paperback

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Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E185.61 .N49137 2019	✔ Available	Place Hold
Joyner	NC Stacks	E185.61 .N49137 2019	✔ Available	Place Hold
Joyner	NC Stacks	E185.61 .N49137 2019	✔ Available	Place Hold