TY - GEN T1 - They stole him out of jail : Willie Earle, South Carolina's last lynching victim A1 - Gravely, William, 1939- LA - English PP - Columbia, South Carolina PB - The University of South Carolina Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1044778775 AB - "Over the last quarter century, a surge in scholarship about lynching in the United States coincided with a discussion by professional historians about why the topic had long suffered from neglect. New research has made possible a more complete picture of South Carolina's lynching history. The first major study, Terence Finnegan's 1993 dissertation, compared lynching in South Carolina and Mississippi. In 2006 John Hammond Moore set lynching in the state alongside murder and dueling over four decades after 1880. Two years later a Pickens County native and professor in an English university, Bruce Baker, used a case-study approach to compare seven lynchings in the two Carolinas from Reconstruction to 1930. All have drawn upon the earlier research of two master's students who surveyed twentieth-century in-state lynchings"-- OP - 309 CN - HV6465.S6 G73 2019 SN - 1611179386 SN - 9781611179385 SN - 9781611179378 KW - Earle, Willie, : 1922-1947 : Death and burial. KW - Earle, Willie, : -1947 : Death and burial. KW - Earle, Willie, : 1922-1947 KW - Lynching : South Carolina : History : 20th century. KW - Lynching : Press coverage : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Lynchage : Caroline du Sud : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Lynchage : Couverture de presse : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Criminology. KW - HISTORY : African American. KW - Death and burial of a person KW - Lynching KW - South Carolina KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -