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Article: The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials: 1871-1872.
- Article from:
- The Yale Law Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
- Author:
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Led by James Goodman's Stories of Scottsboro,(1) a number of recent studies have sought to situate legal practice in a complex and fragmented cultural context by telling the stories of particular legal proceedings.(2) The attractiveness of trial histories to cultural and legal historians is readily apparent. A trial episode is a narrow story that can be described in all of its depth and complexity, giving due weight to the meaning of legal practice for multiple constituencies. But if the risk of local histories is a parochialism that loses sight of how the particular is embedded in broader networks of power, the trial history can provide a narrative that links local ...
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Article: Ku Klux Klan forced to pay pounds 24m damages
The Independent - London;
July 25, 1998 ;
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... ... practised by the Ku Klux Klan, a South Carolina jury yesterday ordered ... trial in Manning, South Carolina. A lawyer for the ... Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the group ... Carendon County, South Carolina, three years ago ...
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