Download or read book Racial Reckoning written by Renee C. Romano and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of changed in 1994, and more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in over a dozen trials. Yet, as Renee C. Romano shows, addressing the nation’s troubled racial past will require more than legal justice.