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- They Stole Him Out of Jail
- William B. Gravely
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- 01 January 2019
- 9781611179385
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CHARACTERS Ý They Stole Him Out of Jail William B. Gravely Ä 1 CHARACTERS REVIEW They Stole Him Out of Jail Stay in the area Gravely also probes problems with memory that resulted in varying interpretations of Willie Earle’s character and conflicting narratives about the lynching itselfAlthough the verdict was in many ways a victory for white supremacy during the waning years of Jim Crow it still drew unprecedented public attention to the horrors of lynching and no similar event has occurred in the state since Yet than seventy years latar the crisis in criminal justice especially as it pertains to African Americans who are incarcerated at far higher rates than whites remains a national challenge This book is a compelling reminder not only of past traumas but of how far South Carolina and the country has yet to
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CHARACTERS Ý They Stole Him Out of Jail William B. Gravely Ä 1 CHARACTERS REVIEW They Stole Him Out of Jail The most comprehensive account of the horrific Earle lynchingBefore daybreak on February 17 1947 twenty four year old Willie Earle an African American man arrested for the murder of a Greenville South Carolina taxi driver named T W Brown was abducted from his jail cell by a mob and then beaten stabbed and shot to death An investigation produced thirty one suspects most of them cabbies seeking revenge for one of their own The police and FBI obtained twenty six confessions but after a nine day trial in May that attracted national press attention the defendants were acuitted by an all white juryIn They Stole Him Out of Jail William B Gravely presents the most comprehensive account of the Earle lynching ever writte
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CHARACTERS Ý They Stole Him Out of Jail William B. Gravely Ä 1 CHARACTERS REVIEW They Stole Him Out of Jail N exploring it from background to aftermath and from multiple perspectives Among his sources are contemporary press accounts there was no trial transcript extensive interviews and archival documents and the “Greenville notebook” kept by Rebecca West the well known British writer who covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine Gravely meticulously re creates the case’s details analyzing the flaws in the investigation and prosecution that led in part to the acuittals Vivid portraits emerge of key figures in the story including both Earle and Brown Solicitor Robert T Ash Governor Strom Thurmond and West whose article “Opera in Greenville” is masterful journalism but marred by errors owing to her short Guilt kept by Rebecca West the well A Kite for Moon known British writer who covered the trial for the New Yorker magazine Gravely meticulously re creates the case’s details analyzing the flaws in the investigation and prosecution that led in part to the acuittals Vivid portraits emerge of World Without End key figures in the story including both Earle and Brown Solicitor Robert T Ash Governor Strom Thurmond and West whose article “Opera in Greenville” is masterful journalism but marred by errors owing to her short