The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham
by
Melanie S. Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That...