(027719) Curriden, Mark, and Phillips, Leroy. Contempt
Of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of
Federalism. New York: Faber & Faber, 1999. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo.
394 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. When Ed Johnson, a black man,
was wrongly convicted of rape in 1906 and sentenced to death in Tennessee,
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan issued a stay of execution, declaring
that Johnson's right to a fair trial had been violated. The interference of the
Supreme Court was not well received back in Chattanooga. A violent mob took
Johnson from his jail cell, beat him, and hanged him from a bridge. ISBN:
0571199526 (Contempt Of Court, Lynching, Tennessee)
