Eric W. Rise
Author of The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment
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The Martinsville Seven: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment (Constitutionalism and Democracy) by Eric W. Rise
The book speaks of segregation, Jim Crow, and violent crimes. Seven were tried , convicted of a horrific act of rape and were executed (minutes) apart from each other in 1951. There were some who blieve the victim had the wrong men and some believe they got what they deserved, others never spoke of the crime even until today. Several decades later, many are left wondering what happened on that tragic night on January 8, 1949?
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