The child in the electric chair : the execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the making of a tragedy in the American South /
"Eli Faber, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has written a narrative history of the case of George Stinney, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was executed for the alleged murder of two white girls (ages 8 and 11) in June 1944. This made Stinney the...
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv19cw9f8 |
Table of Contents:
- 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."