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Faber, Eli, 1943- author.
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Stinney, George Junius, Jr., 1929-1944 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
African American teenage boys -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in criminal justice administration -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Murder) -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Electrocution -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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The child in the ele...
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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 / Eli Faber ; foreword by Carol Berkin.
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Faber, Eli, 1943- author.
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
Subjects
Stinney, George Junius, Jr., 1929-1944 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
African American teenage boys -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in criminal justice administration -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Murder) -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Electrocution -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781643361949 hardcover
1643361945 hardcover
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xv, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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."
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June 16, 1944: George Junius Stinney Jr., a 14-year-old Black 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 jacket
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Hawaii State Library
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323.1196 Fa
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323.1196 Faber
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