Legal lynching

Posted on by erdale13

September 17, 1919, two Black teens went on trial for the murder of a white man during the violence we know as the Chicago Race Riots. Notwithstanding the efforts of the team of African American lawyers who represented them, their trial was a farce. A tragic farce.

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Writer. Formerly civil rights attorney. Currently professor. Working on new book about mental disability and criminal law in the 20th century.

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