The Sleepy Lagoon murder case
race discrimination and Mexican-American rights
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Author
Publication
2010 - University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan, Kansas
Language
English
Word Count
50,750 words, Guess
Page Count
203 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24566823M
- ISBN-139780700617463
- OCLC Control Number607980806
- Library of Congress Control Number2010018065
Classifications
- DDC345.794/9402523
- LCCKF224.S49 W45 2010
Description
After Jose Diaz was found murdered near Los Angeles' Sleepy Lagoon reservoir, six hundred Mexican Americans were rounded up by the police, twenty-four were indicted, and seventeen were convicted. Efforts of lawyers, Hollywood celebrities, and Mexican Americans throughout the nation resulted in all seventeen convictions being thrown out in an appellate decision that cited lack of evidence, coerced testimony, deprivation of the right to counsel, and judicial misconduct. Many of the social, political, and culture issues that dominated America in 1942 are still with us today.
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- Landmark law cases & American society
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