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"In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amidst the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to the Second World War"--

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- A Note on Language -- Prologue -- Part 1. 1917 -- 1. "A Love Match, Pure and Simple" -- 2. "Aren't You Going to Come and Kiss Me?" -- 3. "Altogether Separate and Different Lives" -- 4. "All Annapolis Is Shocked" -- 5. "Not the Faintest Clue, Theory, or Speculation" -- 6. "The Woman Sherlock Holmes" -- 7. "The More Delicate Hand of a Woman" -- 8. "His Name Is Snowden" -- 9. "We Have Got This Negro Dead Right" -- 10. "A Maze of Circumstantial Evidence" -- 11. "I Ain't Scared" -- 12. "Guilty Men and Women Do Not Always Confess" -- 13. "Fairer for the Man, the County, the State" -- Part 2. 1918 -- 14. "Most Heinous and Diabolical" -- 15. "Could Not Have Come from a White Person" -- 16. "It Was Ten Minutes after Eleven When I Got Up" -- 17. "The Man Shoved a Gun against My Head" -- 18. "The Homes of White Women Must Be Protected" -- 19. "Defending Snowden Is Defending the Black People of Maryland" -- 20. "We Have Found No Reversible Error" -- Part 3. 1919 -- 21. "I Forgive Their False Oaths" -- 22. "This Is No Case for Mercy" -- 23. "You Can Appeal to Me until Doomsday" -- 24. "I Could Not Leave This World with a Lie in My Mouth" -- Part 4. 2000 -- 25. "Race Is All Over This Case" -- Part 5. 2001-3 -- 26. "There's Great Jubilation in the Community" -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.

"The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 recounts the inspiring story of immigrant women and the dramatic and effective mass consumer action they launched in turn of the century New York City"--

Three men in a tub -- An unwelcome guest -- Murder at the mission -- Incommunicado -- Interrogation -- Confession -- Indictment and trial -- Appeal -- The third degree -- The Supreme court -- Retrial -- Freedom -- The Wickersham report -- The road to Miranda

Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847-1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term "Chinese American," Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China's first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America's first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to get laws that denied them citizenship repealed. Wong challenged Americans to live up to the principles they freely espoused but failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. This evocative biography is the first book-length account of the life and times of one of America's most famous Chinese-and one of its earliest campaigners for racial equality.