On the Laps of Gods: The Elaine Massacre, Scipio Africanus Jones, and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker

On the Laps of Gods: The Elaine Massacre, Scipio Africanus Jones, and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation

Robert Whitaker

400 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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All hope seemed lost, and then an extraordinary lawyer from Little Rock stepped forward: Scipio Africanus Jones. Jones, who’d been born a slave, joined forces with the NAACP to mount an appeal in which he argued that his clients’ constitutional ri...

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