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Leaving Mississippi - Dickson, Betty R, and Hall, Martha Lee
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One month shy of her 13th birthday in 1952, the author watched as a portable electric chair was off-loaded from a huge flatbed truck and into the Simpson County courthouse. A Negro man who had killed a constable in 1951 was to be electrocuted that night. His wife, Martha Lee Durr, eight-months pregnant, was arrested, charged with accessory to murder. She lost the baby. She spent six months in the Simpson County jail before several Negro farmers posted bail for her to be released and reunited with her three children. Martha ...

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Leaving Mississippi 2020, Xlibris Us

ISBN-13: 9781664141117

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Leaving Mississippi 2020, Xlibris Us

ISBN-13: 9781664141124

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