Mark Curriden Books
Contempt of Court
In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States. In 1906, Ed Johnson was the in...
Read MoreContempt of Court: The Turn Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
By Leroy Phillips, Mark Curriden
"When Ed Johnson, a black man, was wrongly convicted of rape in 1906 and sentenced to death in Tennessee, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan issued a stay of execution, declaring that Johns...
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