The Child in the Electric Chair : The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South /

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"Eli Faber, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has written a narrative history of the case of George Stinney, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was executed for the alleged murder of two white girls (ages 8 and 11) in June 1944. This made Stinney the...

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Autor principal: Faber, Eli, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stinney, George Junius, > Jr., > 1929-1944 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Murder)
Racism in criminal justice administration.
Race relations.
Electrocution.
HISTORY / African American & Black.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Electrocution > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Racism in criminal justice administration > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
African American teenage boys > Civil rights > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
South Carolina.
South Carolina > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Trials, litigation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • June 16, 1944
  • A company town
  • March 24-25, 1944
  • Postponing a lynching
  • The road to trial
  • Clarendon County speaks
  • The silence of the NAACP
  • The governor
  • "This case will not die."

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