The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
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second trial, 81–82, 90–91, 94–104, 140
third trial, 153, 164–79, 340
Jones, Madison S., 28
Jordan, Cleaven, 19–20
Kahlo, Frida, 4, 327
Kaufman, Mary Metlay, 329
Keeler, Laura Mae, 62
Keeton, Daisy, 36–39
Keeton, Ouida, 36–39, 44, 137
Kelley, Robert W., 317
Kemnitz, Milton, 91
Khrushchev, Nikita, 342
Kinderland, 227
Knight, Davis and Newton, 31–32
Koch, Harry, 35–36, 43–44, 56–57, 91, 95
Korean War, 234, 240, 248
Kosciusko, Mississippi, 68, 228, 232
Ku Klux Klan, 35, 124, 227, 237, 245–46, 251, 258–60, 266
Kyle, John, 250, 257
Lampton, Dr. Luke, 339–40, 347
Landrum, J. C., 65
Lang, Charles, 27–28, 40–42
Lanham, Henderson, 272
Laurel, Mississippi, 1–3, 5, 9, 11, 18–19, 21–26, 27, 30–39, 40, 41–54, 56, 57, 63, 64, 81–83, 84, 85, 87–89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 101, 103, 106, 107, 109, 111–12, 114, 115, 118–21, 122, 123, 124, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 153, 155, 164–79, 180, 181, 197, 199–200, 213, 214, 216, 217, 219, 222–24, 228, 238, 239, 241–43, 245, 248–49, 257, 261–62, 264, 268, 269–71, 273, 274, 277, 283, 285, 286, 290, 304, 307, 309–12, 314, 316, 318–23, 329–36, 337–39, 347
“legs” murder, 36–39
Wash lynching, 39–43, 56, 177
Yarbrough case, 135–39
Laurel Leader-Call, 22, 29–30, 32–33, 35–36, 41, 44, 49, 81, 83, 137–38, 153, 165, 199–200, 228, 241, 248, 261, 330–31, 334
Laurel Wholesale Grocery Company, 30, 49–51, 100, 286
Lautier, Louis, 275–76
Lee, Harper, 5, 10
Leeson, Jim, 9, 10
legal lynching, 28–29, 54, 68, 69, 115, 151–53, 272, 291, 340
Leibowitz, Samuel, 195–98, 201, 240
Leonard, Delia, 287
Lerner, Max 324
Lewis, James, 147
Lewis, Leon P., 80
Lexington, Mississippi, 212, 217, 228–30, 273, 278, 344, 345
Life, 4, 17, 58, 142, 315, 317, 326, 332, 335
Lincoln Memorial, 7, 144, 315–16, 319, 324, 329
Little, M. M., 51, 174
London, Alvin, 84, 155–56, 160–79, 180, 181, 198–200, 209, 241, 347
lynchings, 6, 9, 10, 24, 27–28, 66, 69, 115, 128, 130, 133, 145, 193, 208, 316, 342
Attala County Massacre, 68–69, 290
Earle, 140–44, 145
William Faulkner on, 291–96
Higginbotham, 292
history of, 27–29, 66–69, 74–75, 124, 128–31
Jones, 76–77
Lang and Green, 27–28, 40–42
legal, 28–29, 68, 69, 115, 272, 291
legislation against, 71–72, 130–32, 142, 145
Malcom-Dorsey, 76–77, 129, 145
Patton, 292
Payne, 67
postwar era, 75–77, 129
Princess Anne, Maryland, 130
Rush, 68
Shepherd, 61–63, 66
statistics, 66–69
Till, 116–17, 290, 341
Wash, 39–43
MacGillivray, Jean, 304
Madison Square Garden, 133, 149, 228
Mailer, Norman, 4, 325, 327
Malcom-Dorsey lynching, 76–77, 129, 145
Marcantonio, Vito, 41, 72, 227, 305, 329
Marshall, George, 56, 182, 188
Marshall, Thurgood, 56, 71, 76, 151
Martin, Charles, 280
Martin, James Robert, Jr., 143–44
Martin, Martin A., 279–80
Martinsville Seven, 69, 221, 265–66, 278–82
Masonite, 33, 50, 87, 120, 274, 283, 285, 337
McAtee, Leon, 128
McDowell, Evelyn Smith, 23–25, 338
McGee, Adolphus, 12, 16
McGee, Bessie, 21, 45, 56–58, 103, 139, 180–81, 200, 216, 219, 221, 223, 224, 239, 257, 277, 333
testimony at trials, 45, 103
McGee, Della, 12, 15–18, 219–25
McGee, Eliza Jane Payton, 16, 21, 87, 119, 217, 219, 273
divorce from McGee, 119, 211
McGee, Gracie Lee, 4, 12, 16, 268
McGee, Jasper, Jr., 15, 32
McGee, Jasper, Sr., 21, 32
McGee, Marjorie, 12, 16
McGee, Mary, 12
McGee, Rosalee, epigraph, 5, 13, 15, 16–17, 111, 139, 211–12, 216–19, 220–32, 239, 244–45, 257, 278, 283, 285, 286, 302, 303, 305, 307, 308, 317, 330, 331, 335–36, 344–46
CRC and, 211, 216–17, 221–22, 225–28, 268–69, 273–75, 305, 306, 317, 325, 344–45
deception as McGee’s wife, 228, 253, 267, 273–75
McGee, Rose, 222–24
McGee, Tracey, 15, 107, 219–25
McGee, Willie:
alleged rape of Mrs. Hawkins, 2–3, 14, 24, 29–30, 47–48, 52–53, 71, 98–100, 107–8, 113, 117–22, 140, 170–74, 198–99, 215, 239, 253–54, 287, 304, 346
alleged scheme to murder Troy Hawkins, 87–90, 171, 282, 283
appeals of, 3, 55–58, 70–71, 84–85, 92, 139–40, 151, 153, 181, 198–208, 218, 275–77, 285–87, 312–18, 329–30
arraignment and plea, 35
arrest of, 27, 30, 51
birth of, 32
children of, 3–4, 12, 13, 15–18, 57, 217, 227, 228, 269, 336
clemency pleas, 240, 247–58, 312–14
confessions, 52–53, 57, 101, 140, 175–76, 178, 201, 204, 205
coram nobis plea, 241–43, 250, 258, 275, 276
CRC and, 6–8, 180–82, 187, 199, 209, 216–17, 220–22, 225–28, 234–35, 238–43, 245–60, 261–78, 285–88, 296–97, 305, 313, 315, 324–26
electrocution of, 1, 4, 5, 9–10, 24–25, 54, 113, 320–21, 331–36
final weeks of, 316–34
first trial, 3, 30, 35, 43–54, 55, 118, 164, 167
grave of, 19–21
guilty verdicts, 54, 56, 104, 180, 217
jailbreak, 63–66, 70, 71, 102
jailhouse letters, 139, 261, 317, 331, 335–36
last walk of, 321, 333
love-affair alibi of, 2, 5–6, 11, 17, 24, 73, 83–90, 106–7, 111, 113–18, 121–23, 171, 199, 249, 273–75, 282–87, 304, 311–12, 317, 319, 322, 347
mental condition of, 44–45, 57–58, 63–64, 70, 94–95, 102–104, 140, 202, 323
appearance of, 27, 172, 335
press on, 4–5, 13, 29, 35, 44, 64, 66, 84, 90, 99, 102–103, 106, 113–18, 130, 139, 153, 180, 181–82, 234–41, 250, 251, 254–56, 261, 265–66, 275, 277, 285–86, 301–3, 314–18, 321, 324, 326–28, 331–35, 344
public support for, 4–8, 150, 186, 238, 245–46, 261–66, 277, 297, 302–307, 314–15, 324–28
sanity hearing, 44–45
second trial, 3, 22, 64, 81–104, 135, 139–40, 165
sentenced to death, 54, 104, 180, 199, 208, 285, 308
statements by, 87–90, 282–84, 317–18
stays of execution, 58, 199–201, 209, 257, 305–7
testimony of, 176–77
third trial, 3, 64, 91, 92, 137, 151, 153, 160, 164–79, 180, 204, 241, 287, 311
U.S. Supreme Court appeals, 201–8, 209, 218, 238, 264, 275–78, 287, 305–8, 324, 329, 340
McGee, Willie Earl, 15, 16
McGehee, Ernest, 28–29
McGehee, Harvey, 153, 239, 250–53, 263, 275–76
McGohey, John F. X., 206–7
McMullan, O. A., 167
McRae, Horace, 44
Meador, Mrs. Lonnie, 100
Medina, Harold, 206–8
Meiers, Blanche, 147
Memphis Commercial Appeal, 162–63, 243, 289, 292, 328
Meridian, Mississippi, 96, 151–52
Michigan Daily, 306
Millsaps College, 92, 161, 163
Mills, Donna Poole, 162–64, 219–21
Minor, Bill, 321, 331, 334
Mississippi governor’s mansion, 237, 244, 325, 330
Mississippi State Capitol buildings, 6, 244, 249–54, 258, 312–14
Mississippi Supreme Court, 3, 70–71, 81, 92, 96, 138, 151–53, 155, 170, 180, 199–200, 205, 208, 209, 210, 217, 239, 250, 258, 275–76, 285, 327
Mitford, David Freeman, 297
Mitford, Jessica, 4, 90, 212, 222, 287–90, 296–304, 339
A Fine Old Conflict, 11, 114, 287–90, 296–97, 301–5, 342
Mitford, Nancy, 297
Mitford, Unity, 297, 298–99, 301
Mize, Sidney, 43, 270, 285, 287, 301, 312, 317, 318, 329
Montgomery, Jeff, 52, 136, 174–75
Montgomery, Olen, 194
Moody, Milo C., 193
Moon, Henry Lee, 282
Moore, Arthur, 181
Moorhead, Sam, 66
Morgan, Chester M., 59, 61, 82
Mosley, Diana, 297–98, 301
Mosley, Oswald, 298
Mostert, Mary, 13–14, 25, 105
Motari, Lawrence, 64
Mt. Pleasant Church, 20–21
Mullen, Phil “Moon,” 289–90
Murphy, Frank, 202–4
Murray, Marvin, 218–19
Myrdal, Gunnar, 201
Nation, 4, 13, 279
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 7–8, 28, 55–56, 57, 78, 128, 130–31, 135, 145, 151, 188, 194–95, 265, 301, 326, 341, 344
CRC and, 78, 278–79
Martinsville Seven case, 265, 279–82
National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties, 56, 70, 118, 182
National Lawyers Guild, 155, 159, 201
National Negro Congress, 77
Naugher, J. T., 66
Nazism, 133, 134, 158, 247, 263, 272, 297–99, 343–44
Nelson, Rose, 250
New Deal, 59, 61, 184
New Orleans, 18, 19, 32, 37, 77, 79, 80, 88, 95, 108, 141, 243, 248, 249, 255, 256, 265, 324, 329, 335, 344
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 321, 331
Newsweek, 4, 234
New York City, 4, 6, 7, 41, 55, 56, 59, 72, 75, 78, 84, 85, 131, 133, 139, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 180, 182, 184–85, 188, 189, 191, 192, 196–97, 201, 211, 225, 227–28, 234, 236, 238, 240, 245, 247, 248, 250, 263, 264, 267, 278, 281, 288, 296, 300, 302, 305, 307, 315, 318, 324, 325, 329, 345–47
New York Compass, 218, 219, 238–39, 250, 252, 253, 255, 257, 263, 265–66, 272, 326
New Yorker, 131, 142–43, 294
New York Post, 159, 238, 324
New York Times, 4, 41, 128, 129–30, 135, 139, 140, 145, 153, 182, 183, 184, 186, 207, 211, 234, 250, 251, 254, 295, 298, 326
Niles, David K., 142, 329
Nix, Floyd, 30
Norris, Clarence, 193–98, 201
Nuremberg trials, 77, 133, 143
Oakland, 147, 288, 296, 324–25
Oak Park High School, 34
Ordower, Sidney, 186, 247–48, 252–53, 255–56
Orso, E. T., 168–70
Owens, Emmett, 163
Oxford, Mississippi, 288–89, 291–92
Pachuta, Mississippi, 19–20, 32, 87, 309, 337
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 80
Palmer Raids, 190–91
Parchman, 38, 61, 63, 65, 310, 320
Patterson, Haywood, 194–98, 221, 343
Patterson, T. W., 333–34
Patterson, William L., 6, 187–98, 211, 217–18, 221, 227–28, 234, 239–41, 245, 252, 261, 267, 271–73, 288–89, 315, 325, 341–44
as CRC head, 187–98, 239–41, 271–73, 278–81, 342
congressional testimony, 271–73
The Man Who Cried Genocide, 188, 280, 344
Scottsboro case and, 192–98
Patton, Eddie “Buster,” 96, 151–53, 168, 201, 204–5, 340
Patton, Nelson, 292
Payne, Cleveland, 23, 34, 123
Payton, Joe, 21, 50
People’s World, 15, 211
Peekskill Riots, 208
Pittman, Homer, 43–53, 97, 98, 137
Pittsburgh Courier, 128, 326, 344
Poole, Beverly, 162–63
Poole, John, 12, 84, 87, 160–64, 180, 196–97, 269–71, 339–40, 347–49
Jackson Daily News libel suit, 181–82, 209, 269–71, 277
McGee case and, 156, 161, 163–79, 181–82, 196–201, 204–5, 209–11, 218, 223, 241–43, 250, 256–57, 284, 339–440, 347–49
Popham, John N., 129–30, 140, 143, 148, 250, 251, 254, 295
Poplarville, Mississippi, 19, 39, 80
Porter, Tal, 49–50, 118
Pressman, Lee, 159–60
Progressive Party, 150, 185–87, 306
Pyles, Dixon, 12, 14, 22, 81–83, 92–94, 139–40, 161, 163, 210, 339, 347, 348
McGee case and, 81–104, 111, 139–40, 151–56, 168, 170–71, 196–98, 222, 241, 269
Pyles, Todd, 14, 22, 92–94
radio, 7–10, 58, 75, 92, 144, 149, 187, 281, 319, 328, 331–33, 337
Rankin, John, 133, 154, 252
rape, 2–3, 11, 24, 27–29, 67, 71, 83, 115, 135
of black women by white men, 135–39
Martinsville Seven case, 69, 265, 278–82
McGee case allegations, 2–3, 14, 24, 29–30, 47–48, 52–53, 71, 98–100, 107–8, 113, 117–22, 140, 170–74, 198–99, 215, 239, 253–54, 287, 304, 346
Scottsboro case, 96, 117, 188, 192–98
of white women by black men, 27–29, 96, 115–17
Raymond, Harry, 250, 255, 286
Reddoch, J. Press, 40, 42–43
Rice, Greek L., 140, 204
Richards, Beah, 6, 14, 106
Roberds, W. G., 199–200
Robert E. Lee Hotel, 64, 244, 255, 314
Robeson, Paul, 4, 6, 132–34, 184, 189–90, 208, 227, 265, 326, 335, 344
Robinson, Bridgette McGee, 15–18, 26, 107, 109, 119, 219–25
Romilly, Constancia, 300