Without Mercy: The Stunning True Story of Race, Crime, and Corruption in the Deep South

by David Beasley

  Welfare Department

  Westberry, Mitchel

  Wheat, S. J., Jr.

  White, John Clarence

  white supremacy

  Whittle, M. Gary

  Wilburn, Henry

  Williams, Ethel

  Williams, Grady

  Williams, James Monroe

  arrest of

  background of

  conviction of

  as cotton broker

  preaching by

  trial of

  Williams, Jim

  Willis, Fleming (“Sing”)

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Woodmen of the World

  Wooten, Vera

  work camps

  Burns at

  Harsh at

  Works Progress Administration

  World War II

  Wright, Jack

  writers

  WSB radio station

  Yankey, Frances

  Yankey, Worth E.

  Yarbrough, Y. H.

  Youmans, William

  Young, Harold

  Young Harris College

  Zellner, A. M

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  DAVID BEASLEY is a former editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the coauthor of Inside Coca-Cola. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

  NOTE: THE PERSONS ON THE COVER ARE MODELS AND THEIR IMAGES ARE USED FOR ILLUSTATIVE PURPOSES ONLY.

  WITHOUT MERCY. Copyright © 2014 by David Beasley. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins.com

  Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio

  Cover photographs: sky © Shutterstock.com; prison © AP Images; cover portraits © Masterfile

  e-ISBN 9781250014672

  First Edition: February 2014