The Martinsville Seven
Subtitle: Race, Rape, and Capital Punishment (Constitutionalism and Democracy)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780813918303
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Criminal law; Human rights; Multicultural studies; Social issues; c 1945 to c 1960; Legal History; True Crime / Espionage; Law; USA; Criminology; Discrimination & Racism; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
First sentence: Un the afternoon of January 8, 1949, Ruby Stroud Floyd walked through the backyard of her home in Martinsville, Virginia, hurried across U.S. Highway 58, the road to Danville, and entered the predominantly black neighborhood of east Martinsville known as Cherrytown.