The Code of the City of Greenville, South Carolina, 1953
Title | The Code of the City of Greenville, South Carolina, 1953 PDF eBook |
Author | Greenville (S.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 99 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Law |
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The Code of the City of Greenville, South Carolina, 1953
Title | The Code of the City of Greenville, South Carolina, 1953 PDF eBook |
Author | Greenville (S.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 793 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Certificates of incorporation |
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The Code of the City of Greenville, South Carolina
Title | The Code of the City of Greenville, South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Greenville (S.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Law |
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The City Code of 1931
Title | The City Code of 1931 PDF eBook |
Author | Greenville (S.C.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1931 |
Genre | Law |
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Code of Ordinances, City of Greenville, South Carolina
Title | Code of Ordinances, City of Greenville, South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Greenville (S.C.) |
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Pages | |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
They Stole Him Out of Jail
Title | They Stole Him Out of Jail PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Gravely |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2019-03-05 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1611179386 |
“Reminds readers that the history of lynching and racial violence in the United States is not a closed book, but an ever-relevant story.” —Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books Before 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 acquitted by an all-white jury. In They Stole Him Out of Jail, William B. Gravely presents the most comprehensive account of the Earle lynching ever written, 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 recreates the case’s details, analyzing the flaws in the investigation and prosecution that led in part to the acquittals. Vivid portraits emerge of key figures in the story, including both Earle and Brown, Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore, Governor Strom Thurmond, and West, whose article “Opera in Greenville” is masterful journalism but marred by errors owing to her short 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 itself.
Code of Ordinances, City of Greenville, South Carolina
Title | Code of Ordinances, City of Greenville, South Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Greenville (S.C.). City Council |
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Pages | |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Ordinances, Municipal |
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