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Jersey Justice: The Story of the Trenton Six
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Jersey Justice: The Story of the Trenton Six Hardcover - 2011

by Cathy D. Knepper


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The case of the Trenton Six attracted international attention in its time (1948-1952) and was once known as the "northern Scottsboro Boys case." Yet, there is no memory of it. The shame of racism evident in the case has been nearly erased from the public record. Now, historian Cathy D. Knepper takes us back to the courtroom to make us aware of this shocking chapter in American history.

Jersey Justice: The Story of the Trenton Six begins in 1948 when William Horner, an elderly junk dealer, was murdered in his downtown Trenton shop. Over a two-week period, six local African American men were arrested and charged with collectively killing Horner. Violating every rule in the book, the Trenton police held the six men in incommunicado detention, without warrants, and threatened them until they confessed. At the end of the trial the all-white jury sentenced the six men to die in the electric chair.

That might have been the end of the story were it not for the tireless efforts of Bessie Mitchell, the sister of one of the accused men. Undaunted by the refusal of the NAACP and the ACLU to help appeal the conviction of the Trenton Six, Mitchell enlisted the aid of the Civil Rights Congress, ultimately taking the case as far as the New Jersey Supreme Court. Along the way, the Trenton Six garnered the attention and involvement of many prominent activists, politicians, and artists, including Paul Robeson, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pete Seeger, Arthur Miller, and Albert Einstein. Jersey Justice brings to light a shameful moment in our nation's history, but it also tells the story of a personal battle for social justice that changed America.

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  • Title Jersey Justice: The Story of the Trenton Six
  • Author Cathy D. Knepper
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rivergate Books
  • Date 2011-09
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780813551272 / 0813551277
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.42 x 0.92 in (23.39 x 16.31 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Crime/Criminology
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
  • Library of Congress subjects Trenton Six Trial, Trenton, N.J., 1948-1951, Trials (Murder) - New Jersey - Trenton
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010048427
  • Dewey Decimal Code 345.749

About the author

CATHY D. KNEPPER is the author of Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War, and Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal. She specializes in twentieth-century history and culture.

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