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Murder and chaos Carrollton
A desperate manhunt
"A very dark Negro"
The first trial
"Let me go home"
Subversive elements
The commies come to town
"His fight is our fight"
The NAACP takes charge
A new trial ordered
Dan Duke
The second trial
Ballistics, Nan, and a verdict
New evidence, new trial
The third trial
Cornett v. Jones
God and the NAACP.

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The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson : a battle for racial justice at the dawn of the Civil Rights Era 이용현황 표 - 등록번호, 청구기호, 권별정보, 자료실, 이용여부로 구성 되어있습니다.
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Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR... SO FAR by The New Yorker

The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit

The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it's the story of Thurgood Marshall's NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party--despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help--intent on winning the hearts and minds of Black voters. The bitter battle between the two groups played out as the sides sparred over who would take the lead on Henderson's defense, a period in which he spent years in prison away from a daughter he had never seen.

Through it all, The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is a portrait of a community, and a country, at a crossroads, trying to choose between the path it knows is right and the path of least resistance. The case pitted powerful forces--often those steering legal and journalistic institutions--attempting to use racism and Red-Scare tactics against a populace that by and large believed the case against Henderson was suspect at best. But ultimately, it's a hopeful story about how even when things look dark, some small measure of justice can be achieved against all the odds, and actual progress is possible. It's the rare book that is a timely read, yet still manages to shed an informative light on America's past and future, as well as its present.