Professor Donald F. Tibbs discussed the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin as the keynote speaker at a Black History Month observation at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 6.
The talk, “A Questionable Verdict: Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and the Great (Racial) Divide in American Law,” explored implications of bias in the criminal justice system and other questions raised in the high-profile case.
Tibbs is the author of “From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union” and an expert on the overlapping issues of race, law, civil rights and criminal procedure.