It takes the average reader 2 hours and 56 minutes to read A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi by Richard C. Cortner
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This absorbing book is a systematic analysis of the litigation in Brown v. Mississippi, in which the Supreme Court made a pathbreaking decision in 1936 showing the unconstitutionality of coerced confessions. The case exonerated Ed Brown, Henry Shields, and Arthur (Yank) Ellington, three black sharecroppers who had confessed under torture to the murder of a white planter. This case, similar to the notorious Scottsboro case in Alabama, paved the way for the controversial MIRANDA decision thirty years later.This book presents a dramatic story of both tragedy and triumph, one in which human...
A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi by Richard C. Cortner is 174 pages long, and a total of 44,196 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 54% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 1 minute to read A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi aloud.
A "Scottsboro" Case in Mississippi is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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