In this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit anoverlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justiceis carried out in the United States. In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocnet black man found guilty ofthe brutal rape of Nevada Taylor, a white woman, and sentenced todie in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Two black lawyers, not even part ofthe original defense, appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay ofexecution, and the stay, incredibly, was granted. Frenzied withrage at the deision, locals responded by lynching Johnson, and whatensued was a breathtaking whirlwind of groundbreaking legal actionwhose import, Thurgood Marshall would claim, "has never been fullyexplained." Provocative, thorough, and gripping, Contempt of Courtis a long-overdue look at events that clearly depict the peculiarand tenuous relationship between justice and the law.

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