Format:
xv, 174 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
978-1-64336-194-9
Content:
"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 death, and explains how a systemically racist system, paired with the personal ambitions of powerful individuals, turned a blind eye to human decency and one of the basic tenets of the American legal system that individuals are innocent until proven guilty. As society continues to grapple with the legacies of racial injustice, Faber reveals how this case is not just a travesty of justice locked in the era of the Jim Crow South but rather one that continues to resonate in our own time"--Adapted from the book jacket
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Faber, Eli, 1943- Child in the electric chair Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2021 ISBN 978-1-64336-195-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Schwarze
;
Elektrischer Stuhl
;
Prozess
;
Ungerechtigkeit
;
Jugendlicher Täter
;
Todesstrafe
;
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
;
History
;
Trials, litigation, etc
