trials, litigation, etc

Presents a comprehensive examination of injustices done to African-Americans in France from 1944 to 1946 through the testimony of Louis Guilloux, an eyewitness who acted as an interpreter at the courts-martial.

Chronicles the events surrounding the Supreme Court's ruling against Homer Plessy, a light-skinned New Orleans shoemaker of African lineage who violated Louisiana law by boarding a "Whites Only" railroad car in 1892, focusing on the impact the case had on the civil rights movement.

Studies the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Gregory Lee Johnson's right to burn an American flag in protest.

Analyzes Abraham Lincoln's defense of William Armstrong, a young man accused of kidnapping and murdering a man named James Metzger in August of 1857.

Chronicles the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and examines questions regarding the case's influence on civil rights and desegregation in the years since it was fought.

Provides details of the 1846 lawsuit filed by African-American slave, Dred Scott, who maintained that he gained his freedom when his owner brought him to a free state; and describes the decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern?andez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican Americans. Lawyers forged a daring legal strategy, arguing that Mexican Americans were "a class apart" from a legal system that recognized only blacks and whites.

Describes how the lives of philosopher-patriot Okawa Shumei and U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Daniel Jaffe converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. Civilian Okawa was charged with crimes against humanity, and Jaffe was assigned to determine Okawa's ability to stand trial, and thus his fate.