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The last lynching : how a gruesome mass murder rocked a small Georgia town / Anthony S. Pitch.
Van Pelt Library HV6465.G4 P58 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pitch, Anthony, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vigilantes.
- History.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- Mass murder.
- Lynching.
- Monroe (Ga.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Monroe (Ga.).
- Georgia--Monroe.
- Lynching--Georgia--Monroe--History--20th century.
- Mass murder--Georgia--Monroe--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Crimes against--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Vigilantes--Georgia--Monroe--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 214 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- How a gruesome mass murder rocked a small Georgia town
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]
- Summary:
- In 1946, the bodies of two men and two women were found near Moore's Ford Bridge in rural Monroe, Georgia. Their killers were never identified. And although the crime reverberated through the troubled community, the corrupt courts, and eventually the whole world, many details remained unexplored--until now.
- Contents:
- Murder
- Monroe
- Primary election
- Stabbing
- Jail
- Ambush
- The FBI steps in
- Hostility and fear
- Major suspect
- Prime suspects
- Sexual relations
- Hoover offensive
- Pre-grand jury
- Grand jury
- Vengeance
- Defective juries
- Eyewitnesses
- Court action
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-204) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781510701755
- 1510701753
- OCLC:
- 944460499
- Publisher Number:
- 99978312234
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