Nuremberg, Mississippi

In this literary-legal drama set in the mid-20th century, a Black man’s arrest for being out at night becomes the catalyst for a federal lawsuit challenging the architecture of Jim Crow. The narrative follows attorney Silas Thorn as he attempts to apply the legal precedents of the Nuremberg Trials to the systemic injustices of a Mississippi "sundown town." The novel examines the "mechanism" of state-sanctioned discrimination, focusing on the complicity of the legal profession and the bureaucratic habits that render atrocity invisible through official procedure and professional courtesy.Jim Crow laws — Mississippi — Fiction.Sundown towns — Law and legislation — United States — Fiction.Nuremberg War Crime Trials (1946–1949) — Influence — Fiction.Actions and defenses (Federal law) — United States — Fiction.African Americans — Legal status, laws, etc. — History — 20th century — Fiction.Trials (Race relations) — Mississippi — Fiction.Professional ethics — Mississippi — Fiction.Legal stories, American. Read more