Roadhouse Justice : Hattie Lee Barnes and the Killing of a White Man in 1950s Mississippi

"In 1951, Hattie Lee Barnes, a twenty-one-year-old Black woman working as an overnight caretaker and maid at a county-line beer joint in southwestern Mississippi, shot and killed a white intruder. That man, twenty-two-year-old Lamar Craft, was breaking into the bar in the early morning hours, m...

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Autor principal: Brown, Trent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Craft, Lamar > 1928-1951.
Barnes, Hattie Lee.
Racism in criminal justice administration.
Racism against Black people.
Justifiable homicide.
Justifiable homicide > Mississippi > Pike County > Case studies.
Racism against Black people > Mississippi > Pike County > Case studies.
Racism in criminal justice administration > Mississippi > Pike County > Case studies.
Pike County (Miss.) > Race relations.
Mississippi > Pike County.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Roadhouse Shooting and Its Context
  • 2 The Case against Hattie Lee Barnes
  • 3 Two Attempted Murders
  • 4 The Trial of Walter Watson
  • 5 The Trial of Hattie Lee Barnes
  • 6 The Trial of Rob Lee
  • 7 Double Indemnity: An Insurance Suit and Lamar Craft's Reputation
  • 8 Hattie Lee Barnes and the McComb Enterprise-Journal
  • 9 When the Trials Were Over
  • 10 The Reporter and the Lawyer
  • 11 A Rape, a Stabbing, and a Morals Charge
  • 12 Fame and Notoriety after the Barnes Case
  • Epilogue: Challenges, Questions, and Some Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Photographs

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