The Dilemma of the NAACP : A Case study : the Trenton six 1948-1953 / By Steven A. Bank, 1991.

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The Dilemma of the NAACP : A Case study : the Trenton six 1948-1953 / By Steven A. Bank, 1991.

1991

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914719983503681

Bank examines the dilemma presented by the Trenton Six case in which a six African-Americans were tried for the murder of William Horner, a seventy-two year old shop-keeper in Trenton, on January 27, 1948. During a time of post-war, Cold War McCarthyism, the NAACP faced the challenge of reacting to the dubious case without seeming too radical (such as the Civil Rights Congress). The five defendants in the case included Horace Wilson, Collis English, John McKenzie, Ralph Cooper, James Thorpe, and McKinley Forrest. Attorneys serving at various times for the defense included O.J. Rogge, Emmanuel Bloch, Earl Dickerson, Thurgood Marshall, Raymond Pace Alexander, Clifford Moore, J. Mercer Burrell, Robert Queen, James Waldron, Solomon Golat, George Pellettieri, and James Turp. After three trials four of the defendants were acquitted. Cooper and English were sentenced to life imprisonment. Pellettieri filed appeals of life sentences. English died in prison from a heart ailment, and Cooper pleaded "no defense" in a fourth trial admitting a role in the murder and implicating the rest of the Trenton six. He was sentenced to six to ten years amd received parole in 1953.

131 p. ; 28 cm.

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