American Decades
"The Rodney King Videotape: Why the Case Was Not Black and White"
Journal article
By: Elizabeth F. Loftus and Laura A. Rosenwald
Date: 1996
Source: Loftus, Elizabeth F., and Laura A. Rosenwald. "The Rodney King Videotape: Why the Case Was Not Black and White." Reprinted in Hall, Kermit L., et al. American Legal History: Cases and Materials. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 575–578.
About the Authors: Elizabeth F. Loftus (1944–) received her Ph.D. from Stanford. She has taught for the University of Washington at Seattle since 1970. She has received grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, and she has been named a fellow of the American Council on Education. Laura A. Rosenwald, a former editor of the Washington Law Review, has published several books and articles, including "Buried Memories, Shattered Lives" and Law and Mental Health Professionals.
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1990's Law and Justice Primary Sources
- Arizona v. Fulminante
- A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
- Beyond the Burning Cross
- U.S. v. Virginia
- Ninia Baehr, Genora Dancel et al. v. John C. Lewin
- "The Rodney King Videotape: Why the Case Was Not Black and White"
- Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case
- Vacco v. Quill
- Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
- Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings
- The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
