Fireside, Harvey

This book provides an overview of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which defines and protects a citizen's rights within the legal system.

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.

In 1892 African-American Homer A. Plessy is involved in an event of civil disobedience, but the United States Supreme Court approved segregation laws as part of life in the South and his case before it lost.

Examines the people, events, and legal issues involved in the Supreme Court case that challenged a state's right to allow separate but equal railroad accomodations for different races.

Examines ideas and arguments behind the case that brought about equal schooling for all.

Gives a brief description of the conflict in Bosnia, including several personal stories of tragedy told by the young people who lived through them.

Describes the Supreme Court decision in the case of New York Times v. Sullivan, preventing public officials from receiving damages for false statements unless they can prove actual malice.

Discusses the Nuremberg Nazi war crimes trial in which Nazi leaders, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Wilhelm Keitel, were tried for their roles in the Holocaust.

Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try the defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.