Record #:

42566

Author(s):

Wilson, G. Gray

Abstract:

Wilson’s article reflected on the court case arising from the New York Times’ chronicling the injustice against civil rights workers by the Montgomery police and the false perjury charge against Martin Luther King, Jr. in the spring of 1960. To convince readers that this injustice was not an isolated incident, or one related exclusively to Jim Crow culture, Wilson included in examples of course cases filed in the decades since New York Times v Sullivan. More information about this topic can be found in Wilson’s inclusion of two books about this landmark case: Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and First Amendment and New York Times v Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press.

Source:

North Carolina State Bar Journal (NoCar KF 200 N67), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Spring 2016 , p12-13

Subject(s):

New York Times v Sullivan and Martin Luther King Jr. ; New York Times v Sullivan--libel cases ; New York Times--articles--Civil Rights Movement ; Curtis Publishing Co v Butts, 1967; Gertz v Robert Welch, Inc. 1974; Milkovich v Lorain Journal Co., 1990