Real justice : jailed for life for being black : the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

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Label

Real justice : jailed for life for being black : the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Title remainder

jailed for life for being black : the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Statement of responsibility

Bill Swan ; with a foreword by Ken Klonsky

Title variation

Real justice, jailed for being black

Creator

• trueSwan, Bill, 1939-

Author

• trueSwan, Bill, 1939-

Subject

• trueBiographies -- Identity | Africans and African Americans
• trueBoxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography
• Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• trueBoxing
• trueCanadian literature
• trueCarter, Rubin, 1937-2014
• Carter, Rubin, 1937-2014 -- Juvenile literature
• Crime -- Case studies | Juvenile literature
• Crime -- United States -- Case studies | Juvenile literature
• Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• trueFalse imprisonment
• Judicial error -- Case studies | Juvenile literature
• trueMalicious accusation
• trueMurder investigation
• trueMurder suspects
• truePrisoners -- United States -- Biography
• Prisoners -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
• trueRacism -- United States
• Racism -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• trueSports and recreation -- Athletes
• trueSports and recreation -- Boxing
• Judicial error -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• trueAfrican American prisoners
• trueBiographies
• trueBiographies -- Athletes

Genre

• trueCanadian literature
• trueCase studies
• trueBiographies
• trueSports and recreation
• Juvenile literature
• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

"Rubin Carter was in and out of reformatories and prisons from the age of twelve. At twenty-four, he became a winning professional boxer and was turning his life around. But Carter was also very vocal about racism in the local New Jersey police force. In 1966, local policemen arrested Carter and a friend for a triple murder. The two were convicted and sent to jail for life. Carter spent nearly twenty years in jail, proclaiming his innocence. A teen from Brooklyn, Lesra Martin, heard Carter's story and believed he was innocent. He and a small group of Canadian lawyers contacted Carter and began working with Carter's lawyers in New York to get him exonerated. In 1985, a judge released Carter, ruling that Carter's conviction had been based not on evidence, but on racism. Carter moved to Canada in 1985, where until his death in 2014 he worked helping others prove that they had been wrongfully convicted."--Page 4 of cover

Member of

• trueReal justice

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueEasy-to-understand

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

CaOONL

Dewey number

j365/.6092

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

• Ages 13+
• RL 4.8
• HL760L

Intended audience source

Lexile

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

760

Literary form

non fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 8
• 12

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Real justice

Target audience

adolescent