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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
- Title
- 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 ; foreword by Carol Berkin.
- Author
- Faber, Eli, 1943-2020
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Berkin, Carol
- Description
- xv, 174 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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
- Subject
- Stinney, George Junius, Jr., 1929-1944 > Trials, litigation, etc
- 1900-1999
- African American teenage boys > Civil rights > History > South Carolina > 20th century
- Racism in criminal justice administration > South Carolina > History > 20th century
- Trials (Murder) > South Carolina > History > 20th century
- Capital punishment > South Carolina > History > 20th century
- Electrocution > South Carolina > History > 20th century
- Capital punishment
- Electrocution
- Race relations
- Racism in criminal justice administration
- Trials (Murder)
- South Carolina > Race relations > History > 20th century
- South Carolina
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.
- 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."
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-124
- ISBN
- 9781643361949
- 1643361945
- LCCN
- 2021010746
- OCLC
- 1223071907
- Author
- Faber, Eli, 1943-2020, author.
- Title
- 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 ; foreword by Carol Berkin.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Berkin, Carol, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-124