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Primary Sources: The Great Depression and the 1930s: Crime & Law - General

Online Sources: Crime & Law in the 1930s - General

21st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
Ed Morris, Star Sox Pitcher, is Knifed in Fight
FBI Vault: Bremer Kidnapping
FBI Vault: Eliot Ness
FBI Vault: Gangster Era
FBI Vault: J. Edgar Hoover
FBI Vault: Organized Crime
Gangsters
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
Massie Trials (1931 & 1932)
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"Two dramatic criminal trials, one for rape and one for murder and both involving multiple defendants, forever changed the nature of Hawaiian race relations and politics."
Murder & Mayhem - The Strange Saga of Winnie Ruth Judd
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"The murder trial of Winnie Ruth Judd began on January 19, 1932, at the Maricopa County Courthouse in downtown Phoenix. The media called her "the trunk murderess" and "tiger woman." Judd claimed self-defense. "
Scottsboro Trial
Uniform Crime Reports [United States], 1930-1959

Book Sources: Crime & Law in the 1930s - General

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Jim Crow Laws by Leslie V. Tischauser
Call Number: KF4757 .T57 2012
ISBN: 0313386080
"Primary source documents, including Supreme Court decisions and W.E.B DuBois’s 1947 "Statement on the Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of Citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress"" Description from ABCClio
Major Problems in American Immigration History by Mae M. Ngai, Jon Gjerde
Call Number: JV6450 .M36 2013
ISBN: 0547149077
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