On The Laps Of Gods

In this heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of courage and will, journalist Robert Whitaker carefully documents--and exposes--one of the worst racial massacres in American history. Whitaker's important book commemorates a legal struggle, "Moore v. Dempsey, " that paved the way for the civil rights era, and tells too of a man, Scipio Africanus Jones, whose name surely deserves to be known by all Americans.
"Whitaker has ... placed the massacre and the Supreme Court decision in their full legal and historical context. At the same time, he has revived the story of a great African-American lawyer, Scipio Africanus Jones." --"New York Times Book Review"