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100 1 Serrano, Richard A.,|eauthor.
245 10 Summoned at midnight :|ba story of race and the last
military executions at Fort Leavenworth /|cRichard A.
Serrano.
264 1 Boston :|bBeacon Press,|c[2019]
300 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Army justice -- Austria -- The castle -- Seven base --
White death row -- Eisenhower -- Black death row -- A
great trouble -- Kennedy -- Midnight.
520 "In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement in the
U.S. was at last gaining ground, 16 soldiers sat confined
in basement cells on death row in the army's Fort
Leavenworth maximum security prison in Kansas. Exactly
eight were white and eight were black. All of the white
soldiers were commuted. Not only were their lives spared,
but they all were eventually released and returned to
their families. They benefited from powerful Washington
powerbrokers, including the Eisenhower administration and
Congress, high-priced, specialized lawyers and a
groundswell of public support. Only black soldiers were
hung. They were summoned at midnight to a wooden gallows
and dropped to their deaths. They enjoyed no Washington
support, could not afford expensive lawyers and had little
public backing. Their casefiles are meager - often
containing a desperate, misspelled letter from a mother
pleading for her son's life. Then in early 1961 a final
case reached the Oval Office in Washington. President John
Kennedy, a Democrat, a liberal, and a Catholic, a leader
strong on Civil Rights, was still in his First Hundred
Days when confronted with whether to spare army Private
John A. Bennett. Unlike all the other condemned men, white
and black, Bennett was not a murderer. He had killed no
one. Instead he was sentenced to die for raping a white
girl. But like the other men soldiers who were hung,
Bennett was black. Were he to die, he would become the
last soldier executed by the army, the last in nearly 60
years"--|cProvided by publisher.
588 0 Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on
February 20, 2019).
648 7 1900-1999|2fast
650 0 Discrimination in capital punishment|zUnited States.
650 0 African American soldiers.
650 0 Discrimination in the military|zUnited States.
650 0 Discrimination in criminal justice administration|zUnited
States.
650 0 Executions and executioners|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th
century.
650 7 HISTORY|xMilitary|xOther.|2bisacsh
650 7 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING|xMilitary Science.|2bisacsh
650 7 African American soldiers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799366
650 7 Armed Forces|xAfrican Americans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01351729
650 7 Discrimination in capital punishment.|2fast
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650 7 Discrimination in criminal justice administration.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst00895034
650 7 Discrimination in the military.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01764765
650 7 Executions and executioners.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00917772
651 0 United States|xArmed Forces|xAfrican Americans|xHistory.
651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 4 Electronic books.
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
710 2 OverDrive, Inc.,|edistributor.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aSerrano, Richard A.|tSummoned at
midnight.|dBoston : Beacon Press, [2018]|z9780807060964
|w(DLC) 2018025939
856 40 |uhttp://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=89&titleId=4229356
|zAn electronic book accessible online
947 OCLC
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