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Equal Justice Initiative, Published 2016. Wraps, 52 pp.; 23 cm; staple bound; copyright 2016, the original issue, preceding a reset 2017 issue recorded separately in WorldCat; illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs throughout, with color-block pull quotes and full-bleed plates.
In Very Good condition. Black-and-white pictorial paper covers with light blue lettering on front, mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight, staples sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Equal Justice Initiative report on the racial terror lynching of Black veterans from the Civil War through the aftermath of World War II, arguing that military service marked Black soldiers as a particular threat to Jim Crow. Covers the Black Codes barring firearm ownership, the Memphis Massacre of 1866, the Red Summer of 1919, and the Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings of 1946, called the last mass lynching in America. Individual cases include Frank Livingston, Bud Johnson, Daniel Mack, Ely Green, Lucius McCarty and Maceo Snipes. Foreword by Bryan Stevenson. Langston Hughes, "Beaumont to Detroit: 1943," printed at p. 3. Cover photograph shows soldiers of the 369th Infantry who won the Croix de Guerre, 1919.