Gravely William They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina`s Last Lynching Victim 9781611179378

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Автор: Gravely William
Название: They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina`s Last Lynching Victim
ISBN: 9781611179378
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Региональная и национальная история

История Америк

Социальная дискриминация и неравенство

ISBN-10: 1611179378
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.63 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2019
Серия: History
Язык: English
Размер: 162 x 236 x 29
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Regional & national history,History of the Americas,Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
Подзаголовок: Willie earle, south carolina`s last lynching victim
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 re-creates the cases 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 Earles character and conflicting narratives about the lynching itself.Although the verdict was in many ways a victory for white supremacy during the waning years of Jim Crow, it still drew unprecedented public attention to the horrors of lynching and no similar event has occurred in the state since. Yet, more than seventy years later, the crisis in criminal justice - especially as it pertains to African Americans, who are incarcerated at far higher rates than whites - remains a national challenge. This book is a compelling reminder not only of past traumas but of how far South Carolina and the country has yet to go.
Дополнительное описание: Social discrimination and social justice|History of the Americas|General and world history

They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina`s Last Lynching Victim, Gravely William