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Real Justice: Jailed for Life for Being Black: The Story of Rubin Hurricane Carter
Contributor(s): Swan, Bill (Author)
ISBN: 1459406656     ISBN-13: 9781459406650
Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $12.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Prejudice & Racism
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Sports & Recreation
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 760
Series: Lorimer Real Justice
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.26 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
 
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Publisher Description:

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 Canadians contacted Carter and began working with Carter's lawyers in New York to get the boxer 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Swan, Bill: - BILL SWAN has worked as a journalism teacher, editor and newspaper columnist. He has written eleven books for children. Mud Run was nominated for a Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award and Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to Death won the 2013 Red Maple Non Fiction Award. He lives in Courtice, Ontario with his wife and daughter.