Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case (Book)
Stannard David E
Release Date: 19 Jul 2007
Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9780143036630
ISBN-10: 0143036637
In 1931 Hawaiai, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Thaliaas mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murderedaan act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an ahonor killing.a The ensuing murder trial, Clarence Darrowas last, enthralled the nation and exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian aparadise.a This is the riveting story behind one of the pivotal scandals of American history.
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