04448cam a2200805 4500 525883044 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780807061039 0807061034 B07CR6RYQM Amazon 6a44bfdf-a3ab-4a7a-857c-629e60d01a20 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 598477 598477 598477 4229356 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Serrano, Richard A. Summoned at Midnight [Libby eBook] : A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth. Beacon Press, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6114kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. african american history. gifts for history buffs. military history books. history teacher gifts. history lovers gifts. capital punishment. history buff gifts. fathers day gifts. american history. Criminal Justice. Military History. historical books. political books. discrimination. death penalty. World History. gifts for dad. history books. history gifts. Armed forces. 19th Century. Civil Rights. us history. Journalism. army books. death row. Civil War. dad gifts. law books. politics. Military. History. army. race. War. Law. HTML:<b>Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.</b><br /> Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second chance and whose did not. Between 1955 and 1961, a group of white and black condemned soldiers lived together on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison. Although convicted of equally heinous crimes, all the white soldiers were eventually paroled and returned to their families, spared by high-ranking army officers, the military courts, sympathetic doctors, highly trained attorneys, the White House staff, or President Eisenhower himself.<br /> During the same 6-year period, only black soldiers were hanged. Some were cognitively challenged, others addicted to substances or mentally unbalanced—the same mitigating circumstances that had won white soldiers their death row reprieves. These men lacked the benefits of political connections, expert lawyers, or public support; only their mothers begged fruitlessly for their lives to be spared. By 1960, John Bennett was the youngest black inmate at Fort Leavenworth. His lost battle for clemency was fought between 2 vastly different presidential administrations—Eisenhower's and Kennedy's—as the civil rights movement was gaining steam.<br /> Drawing on interviews, trial transcripts, and rarely published archival material, Serrano brings to life the characters in this lost history: from desperate mothers and disheartened appeals lawyers, to the prison doctors, psychiatrists, and chaplains. He shines a light on the scandalous legal maneuvering that reached the doors of the White House and the disparity in capital punishment that was cut so strictly along racial lines. Nonfiction. Military. History. Law. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a44bfdf-a3ab-4a7a-857c-629e60d01a20&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a44bfdf-a3ab-4a7a-857c-629e60d01a20&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6a44bfdf-a3ab-4a7a-857c-629e60d01a20&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)