More important, they reflect the character of American life and the pathos elicited by the musical memory of these common and troubled lives. Author : Wilbur R. Thus, this five-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.
It covers the whole of the criminal justice system, from crimes, law enforcement and policing, to courts, corrections and human services. Among other things, this encyclopedia: explicates philosophical foundations underpinning our system of justice; charts changing patterns in criminal activity and subsequent effects on legal responses; identifies major periods in the development of our system of criminal justice; and explores in the first four volumes - supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents - evolving debates and conflicts on how best to address issues of crime and punishment.
Its signed entries in the first four volumes--supplemented by a fifth volume containing annotated primary documents--provide the historical context for students to better understand contemporary criminological debates and the contemporary shape of the U. Author : James S. Author : Russell M. Lawson,Benjamin A.
Contextualizes the political experiences and contributions of minorities within American politics, society, and culture Includes people of color e. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death records, and correspondence long thought lost or buried. For such an influential figure, McCormack tried to dismiss the past, almost erasing his legacy from the public's mind.
John William McCormack: A Political Biography sheds light on the behind-the-curtain machinations of American politics and the origins of the modern-day Democratic party, facilitated through McCormack's triumphs. McCormack overcame desperate poverty and family tragedy in the Irish ghetto of South Boston to hold the second-most powerful position in the nation. By reinventing his family history to elude Irish Boston's powerful political gatekeepers, McCormack embarked on a - House career and from , the longest house leadership career.
Working with every president from Coolidge to Nixon, McCormack's social welfare agenda, which included Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, immigration reform, and civil rights legislation helped commit the nation to the welfare of its most vulnerable citizens. By helping create the Austin-Boston Connection, McCormack reshaped the Democratic Party from a regional southern white Protestant party to one that embraced urban religiously and racially diverse ethnics.
Author : United States. Committee on the Judiciary Publisher: N. Author : Nicola Sacco Publisher: N. Sacco and Vanzetti won the John E. It was released nationally in theaters in March and later on DVD. Two lambs to the slaughter, the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in for a crime that they almost certainly did not commit, put to death by the state of Massachusetts alongside the man who actually confessed to murdering a shoe factory manager and armed guard in the course of a payroll heist.
As foreigners and draft-dodgers and followers of the militant anarchist and advocate of terror Luigi Galleani, Sacco and Vanzetti were ready-made for sacrifice on the altar of America's post-World War I red scareblamed for a rash of Boston-area robberies, which Peter Miller's new documentary pins on a Portuguese gang out of Providence.
Their lawyer tried to put capitalism on trial as, in its way, the state did as well: The cops probably faked evidence; the judge discounted testimony, including a jailhouse confession. Only 81 minutes long, Sacco and Vanzetti is packed with information. Miller mixes archival footage and dramatized readings Tony Shalhoub as Sacco, John Turturro as Vanzetti with scenes from a Italian movie and a wide array of talking heads.
Amazingly these include Sacco's niece, a Vanzetti neighbor, and the daughter of one of the men killed in the robbery. Front and center is people's historian Howard Zinn who notes that, "I talk about Sacco and Vanzetti all the time. Addeddate Color color Identifier sacco. Some day you will understand what I am about to tell you. That your father has sacrificed everything dear and sacred to the human heart and soul for his fate in liberty and justice for all. That day you will be proud of your father, and if you come brave enough, you will take his place in the struggle between tyranny and liberty and you will vindicate his [our] names and our blood.
If we have to die now, you shall know, when you will be able to understand this tragedy in its fullest, how good and brave your father has been with you, your father and I, during these eight years of struggle, sorrow, passion, anguish and agony.
Even from now you shall be good, brave with your mother, with Ines, and with Susie--brave, good Susie- -and do all you can to console and help them.
I would like you to also remember me as a comrade and friend to your father, your mother and Ines, Susie and you, and I assure you that neither have I been a criminal, that I have committed no robbery and no murder, but only fought modestily to abolish crimes from among mankind and for the liberty of all.
Remember Dante, each one who will say otherwise of your father and I, is a liar, insulting innocent dead men who have been brave in their life. Remember and know also, Dante, that if your father and I would have been cowards and hypocrits and rinnegetors of our faith, we would not have been put to death. They would not even have convicted a lebbrous dog; not even executed a deadly poisoned scorpion on such evidence as that they framed against us.
They would have given a new trial to a matricide and abitual felon on the evidence we presented for a new trial.
Remember, Dante, remember always these things; we are not criminals; they convicted us on a frame-up; they denied us a new trial; and if we will be executed after seven years, four months and seventeen days of unspeakable tortures and wrong, it is for what I have already told you; because we were for the poor and against the exploitation and oppression of the man by the man.
The documents of our case, which you and other ones will collect and preserve, will prove to you that your father, your mother, Ines, my family and I have sacrificed by and to a State Reason of the American Plutocratic reaction. The day will come when you will understand the atrocious cause of the above written words, in all its fullness. Then you will honor us. I left the copy of An American Bible to your mother now, for she will like to read it, and she will give it to you when you will be bigger and able to understand it.
Keep it for remembrance. It will also testify to you how good and generous Mrs. Gertrude Winslow has been with us all. Good-bye Dante. Gertrude L. Winslow was a supporter and confidant of Sacco and Vanzetti. Rosa and my sister Liugi paid us a visit just now and told us of your letter to us, which they had forgotten home. They will bring it to us this afternoon, if they will come back. But they told us the contents of your letter, and I am writing now because it seems that nothing and no one is going to stop our execution after this midnight; so we may have no chance to see your letter.
Judge Holmes repelled our appeal on the ground that the State Supreme Court had passed on the case and he does not want to invade the State Court ground. Yesterday, Judge Brandeis repelled our appeal on the ground of personal reasons; to wit, because he or members of his family are favorably interested in our case, as demonstrated by the facts that after our arrest Rosa and her children went to live for a month in an empty house of Justice Brandeis in Dedham, Mass.
These two justices are the symbols of liberalism in the Federal Supreme Court and they turned us their shoulders. Now our lawyers are presenting the appeal to justice Stone. Since the other Federal Supreme justices are reactionary, well, that will be a good ground on which to repel our appeal. So that it is coming to pass that some justices repel our appeal because they are friendly with us and the other justices repel our appeal because they are hostile to us, and through this elegant Forche Caudine, we are led straight to the electric chair.
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