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The child in the electric chair : the execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the making of a tragedy in the American South.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faber, Eli.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stinney, George Junius, Jr., 1929-1944--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Stinney, George Junius.
- African American teenage boys--Civil rights--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- African American teenage boys.
- Racism in criminal justice administration--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- Racism in criminal justice administration.
- Trials (Murder)--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- Trials (Murder).
- Electrocution--South Carolina--History--20th century.
- Electrocution.
- South Carolina--Race relations--History--20th century.
- South Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- A foreword is provided by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College at the City University of New York and author of several books including Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.
- 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."
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781643361956
- 1643361953
- OCLC:
- 1250436277
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