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Pub. Date
c2001
Description
In 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns documenting the crime and sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and...
46) Miranda's victim
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Based on true events, in 1963, Trish Weir is sexually assaulted and her assailant is caught and tried. But after he confesses without legal aid and is granted a retrial, it triggers a legal proceeding that forever alters the nation's justice system."