hate crimes

Examines the events surrounding the 1998 dragging and murder of a forty-nine-year-old African-American man in Jasper, Texas.

Recounts the trial of Tom Metzger and the White Aryan Resistance for the murder of an Ethiopian student in Portland, Oregon.

Discusses the case involving two teenagers who placed a burning cross on the lawn of a black couple who had moved into a white neighborhood.

Profiles ten American women from different regions, ethnic backgrounds, and times who are working or have worked against violence.

Examination and analysis of the murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the community of Bensonhurst where he was murdered.

Jake Benchley defends an African-American man who was accused of rape and subsequently lynched, and, along with the dead man's son, becomes the target of the men responsible for the crime.

Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.

Explores the issues surrounding hate crimes, discussing what they are, how they affect America, and how they can be stopped.

Looks at the history of efforts to use law to fight racial prejudice and hate in the United States, reviewing legal cases in which racially motivated crimes were committed, and featuring a selection of related documents. Includes a chronology and an annotated bibliography.

A social and political history of hate speeches and crimes in the United States from the 1920s to the present.