The Martinsville Seven : race, rape, and capital punishment

The Martinsville Seven : race, rape, and capital punishment /

In January 1949 a thirty-two-year-old white woman in Martinsville, Virginia, accused seven young black men of raping her. Within two days state and local police had rounded up all the suspects and extracted confessions from them. In a series of trials that lasted eleven days, all were found guilty a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rise, Eric W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Series:Constitutionalism and democracy
Subjects:
1900-1999
Martinsville Seven Trial, Martinsville, Va., 1949.
Trials (Rape) > Virginia > Martinsville.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Trials (Rape)
Processen (rechtspraak)
Rassendiscriminatie.
Verkrachting.
Doodstraf.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Southern States.
Virginia > Martinsville.
History.

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