Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South

Amy Louise Wood is a professor of history at Illinois State University. She is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890–1940. Natalie J. Ring is an associate professor of history at University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. RingPart I: Crime1. The Trials of George Doyle: Race and Policing in Jim Crow New Orleans / K. Stephen Prince2. “Many People ‘Colored’ Have Come to the Homicide Office”: Police Investigations of African American Homicides in Memphis, 1920-1945 / Brandon T. Jett3. Forced Confessions: Police Torture and the African American Struggle for Civil Rights in the 1930s South / Silvan Niedermeier4. The South’s Sin City: White Crime and the Limits of Law and Order in Phenix City, Alabama / Tammy IngramPart II: Punishment5. Testimonial Incapacity and Criminal Defendants in the South / Pippa Holloway6. Sewing and Spinning for the State: Incarcerated Black Female Garment Workers in the Jim Crow South / Talitha L. LeFlouria7. Cole Blease’s Pardoning Pen: State Power and Penal Reform in South Carolina / Amy Louise Wood8. Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South / Vivien Miller9. The Making of the Modern Death Penalty in Jim Crow North Carolins / Seth KotchContributorsIndex