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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gravely, William, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
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.