Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History by Annette Gordon-Reed (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, New York Law School)
Race on Trial is a book of twelve original essays will bring together two themes of American culture: law and race. The essays fall into four groups: cases that are essential to the history of race in America; cases that illustrate the treatment of race in American history; cases of great fame that became the trials of the century of their time; and cases that made important law.