West's South Carolina Digest, 2d, 1783 to Date
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1642
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 728
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William B. Gravely
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1611179386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Reminds readers that the history of lynching and racial violence in the United States is not a closed book, but an ever-relevant story.” —Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Before daybreak on February 17, 1947, twenty-four-year-old Willie Earle, an African American man arrested for the murder of a Greenville, South Carolina, taxi driver named T. W. Brown, was abducted from his jail cell by a mob, and then beaten, stabbed, and shot to death. An investigation produced thirty-one suspects, most of them cabbies seeking revenge for one of their own. The police and FBI obtained twenty-six confessions, but, after a nine-day trial in May that attracted national press attention, the defendants were acquitted by an all-white jury. In They Stole Him Out of Jail, William B. Gravely presents the most comprehensive account of the Earle lynching ever written, exploring it from background to aftermath and from multiple perspectives. Among his sources are contemporary press accounts (there was no trial transcript), extensive interviews and archival documents, and the “Greenville notebook” kept by Rebecca West, the well-known British writer who covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine. Gravely meticulously recreates the case’s details, analyzing the flaws in the investigation and prosecution that led in part to the acquittals. Vivid portraits emerge of key figures in the story, including both Earle and Brown, Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore, Governor Strom Thurmond, and West, whose article “Opera in Greenville” is masterful journalism but marred by errors owing to her short stay in the area. Gravely also probes problems with memory that resulted in varying interpretations of Willie Earle’s character and conflicting narratives about the lynching itself.
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 990
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 570
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 2620
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kendall F. Svengalis
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780976786429
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 906
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