The child in the electric chair the execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the making of a tragedy in the American South
"June 16, 1944: George Junius Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old African American boy, was strapped into a South Carolina electric chair. He became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century. Faber explores the events leading to Stinney's dea...
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Columbia, South Carolina
The University of South Carolina Press
[2021]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.