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Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
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Johnson, Versie, 1915 or 1916-1947 -- Death and burial.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth -- Family.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Mississippi -- Case studies.
Family secrets.
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Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
Johnson, Versie, 1915 or 1916-1947 -- Death and burial.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth -- Family.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Mississippi -- Case studies.
Family secrets.
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In the pines : a lynching, a lie, a reckoning / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
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Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
Call #:
364.134 H162i
Subjects
Johnson, Versie, 1915 or 1916-1947 -- Death and burial.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth -- Family.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Mississippi -- Case studies.
Family secrets.
ISBN:
9780316564748 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxxviii, 215 p., 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : maps, ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-200) and index.
Summary:
"An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment the unsolved murder of a Black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff -- a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America. Grace Hale was home from college when she first heard the family legend. In 1947, while her beloved grandfather had been serving as a sheriff in the Piney Woods of south-central Mississippi, he prevented a lynch mob from killing a Black man who was in his jail on suspicion of raping a white woman -- only for the suspect to die the next day during an escape attempt. It was a tale straight out of To Kill a Mockingbird , with her grandfather as the tragic hero. This story, however, hid a dark truth. Years later, as a rising scholar of white supremacy, Hale revisited the story about her grandfather and Versie Johnson, the man who died in his custody. The more she learned about what had happened that day, the less sense she could make of her family's version of events. With the support of a Carnegie fellowship, she immersed herself in the investigation. What she discovered would upend everything she thought she knew about her family, the tragedy, and this haunted strip of the South -- because Johnson's death, she found, was actually a lynching. But guilt did not lie with a faceless mob. A story of obsession, injustice, and the ties that bind, In the Pines casts an unsparing eye over this intimate terrain, driven by a deep desire to set straight the historical record and to understand and subvert white racism, along with its structures, costs, and consequences -- and the lies that sustain it."--Publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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1
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