trials (political crimes and offenses)

Provides accounts of seventeen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the stand-off between American Indian Movement activists and the FBI at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1971 and continuing through the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal of 2004, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.

Provides accounts of eighteen crimes and trials that achieved celebrity status, beginning with the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and continuing through the Attica prison riots of 1971, each with photographs, sidebars, and references; and includes an introductory essay that examines the social and historical contexts in which the cases occurred.

Discusses the trials of Nelson Mandela and the politics of South Africa.

On May 17, 1968, a group of Catholic anti-war activists burst into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records (which they called death certificates) and burned the documents in a fire fueled by homemade napalm. The Catonsville Nine became international news and were defended by radical attorney William Kuntsler in federal court. This book, written by a Catonsville native, offers the first comprehensive account of this key event in the protests against the Vietnam War.

Text and illustrations look at Susan B. Anthony's arrest and trial for voting in the president election of 1872.

Describes the trial of Muhammad Ali, the first three-time boxing Heavyweight Champion of the world, for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War.

Explores issues associated with the topic of conscientious objectors, tracing it back to colonial times; and looks at the 1967 Supreme Court case involving Muhammad Ali.

Discusses eight historically important, politically-related court cases in which an individual faced an authority, such as a government or church, which misused the courts in attempting to establish its power over the individual.

An aging revolutionary is imprisoned and tortured by the party to which he has dedicated his life.