lynching

In 1912, in Harris County, Georgia, a White man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, was shot dead on the porch of a Black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctioned the lynching of a Black woman and three Black men; all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this wasn't just a recital of dry history facts, this was her family's history. And as she dug deeper into her research, she discovered that she was not only related to the sheriff, but to one of the four that was murdered.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.

"Describes the brutal killing of a young black man in Alabama, and subsequent conviction of two Klansmen in 1981 and the civil suit against the United Klans of America that exposed the true motives and philosophy of the organization and ultimately bankrupted them"--OCLC.

Presents a detailed account of Hawaii's most notorious murder trial, chronicling the social history of Thalia Massie's accusation of five nonwhite men of gang rape, the ensuing trial, its hung jury, and subsequent murder of one of suspects, prompting another trial in defense of the murderers lead by criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Presents an account of the case of Leo Frank, a Jewish man who moved to Georgia in the early 1900s to run a pencil factory, discussing his trial for the 1913 murder of a young teenage worker, the controversy over his conviction, the governor's commutation of his death sentence, and his lynching by a mob in 1915.

In the early 20th century, the U.S. Navy dominated Hawaii. Most Americans thought of the islands as a Pacific paradise, but in 1931, a dark incident shattered the tranquil veneer of the islands and exposed growing racial tensions. The wife of a Navy liutenant accused 5 local men of rape. One man was killed. In the trial that followed, celebrity attorney Clarence Darrow offered an impassioned defense on behalf of the husband, calling the murder an "honor killing.".

"Presents information regarding the migration of African Americans from the southern states to the northern states from 1916 to 1970, including key events, and influential people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students"--Provided by publisher.