important, because of pressures like this and racism running amuck he was denied some of his rights as a citizen and his trial was erred. Johnson was wronged not only in court but also by the civilization itself.
             The book starts off with lawyers Noah Parden and Emanuel D. Molyneaux Hewlett, standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Their reason for being there was simple yet complex at the same time. They had traveled there to see Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan and convince him to give Ed Johnson a black man in Chattanooga, a stay of execution so the Supreme Court could review his case and see how he was wronged. Th
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