Author Talk: "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South"

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Authors & Writing, Genealogy & History

Age Group:

Adults
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Professor Brandon T. Jett will speak about his book, Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South: African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945. The book just named the Silver Medal Winner of the Florida Book Award for general nonfiction.

Professor Jett and his students have received praise for directing and creating The Lynching in LaBelle Project. This collaborative digital history project allows people insight into the lynching of Henry Patterson that occurred in LaBelle, Florida in 1926 and the subsequent investigations and trials.

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