They Stole Him Out of Jail : Willie Earle, South Carolina's Last Lynching Victim /
"Over the last quarter century, a surge in scholarship about lynching in the United States coincided with a discussion by professional historians about why the topic had long suffered from neglect. New research has made possible a more complete picture of South Carolina's lynching history....
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Due process denied
- Prosecuting dilemmas
- Roundup in record time
- Shifting sentiment
- Homicide narratives
- Discovering Willie Earle
- Hosting a media blitz
- Subverting the state's case
- Through the eyes of Rebecca West
- No further suspense
- Anticipating the future
- A lynching remembered.