The Color of Night : Race, Railroaders, and Murder in the Wartime West /

"On an unusually cold January night in 1943, Martha James was murdered on a train in rural Oregon, near the Willamette Valley town of Albany. She was White, Southern, and newly-married to a Navy pilot. Despite inconsistent and contradictory eyewitness accounts, a young Black cook by the name of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geier, Max G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Folkes, Robert E. Lee, > 1923-1945.
James, Martha Virginia Brinson, > 1921-1943.
Trials (Murder)
Social aspects.
Racism.
Race relations.
Murder.
African Americans > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Oregon > Willamette, Vallee de la.
Noirs americains > Droits > Oregon > Willamette, Vallee de la > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Racisme > Oregon > Willamette, Vallee de la > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Proces (Meurtre) > Oregon > Albany > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Meurtre > Oregon > Willamette, Vallee de la > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Blanches > Crimes contre > Oregon > Willamette, Vallee de la > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Travailleurs des chemins de fer noirs americains > Oregon > Willamette, Vallee de la > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Oregon > Willamette River Valley.
African Americans > Civil rights > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
Racism > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > Oregon > Albany > History > 20th century.
Murder > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
Women, White > Crimes against > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
African American railroad employees > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > Social conditions > 20th century.
Oregon > Willamette River Valley.
Oregon > Albany.
Willamette, Vallee de la (Or.) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Willamette River Valley (Or.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Workers, Women, and Warriors in an Oregon at War
  • Introduction: Seeing Color, Workers, and Ghosts in Oregon's Willamette Valley
  • Stories of a Snowy Winter's Night in the Willamette Valley
  • Food Fights for Freedom
  • The Marine, the Waiter, and the Man in the Pin-Striped Suit
  • The Trials of Home and "Away" Lives in Portland, Albany, and Los Angeles
  • Men and Women of Conviction
  • Trials of War and Hopes for Postwar Progress
  • Executing Judgment Oregon Style
  • Conclusion: Folkes on the Death Train in Oregon.

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