The Child in the Electric Chair : The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South
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Faber, Eli,
Contributors
Berkin, Carol, writer of foreword
Bennett, Beresford, narrator.
Chilton, Karen, narrator.
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Audiobooks.
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History / Social History.
Political Science / Civil Rights.
Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations.
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.

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Audio
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5 audio discs (6 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English

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Compact discs.
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Narrated by Beresford Bennett and Karen Chilton ; [with Carol Berkin].
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At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix the electrode to his right leg and the face mask, which was clearly too large, fell to the floor when the executioner flipped the switch. That day, George Stinney became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century. How was it possible, even in Jim Crow South Carolina, for a child to be convicted, sentenced to death, and executed based on circumstantial evidence in a trial that lasted only a few hours? Through extensive archival research and interviews with Stinney's contemporaries―men and women alive today who still carry distinctive memories of the events that rocked the small town of Alcolu and the entire state―Eli Faber pieces together the chain of events that led to this tragic injustice.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Faber, E., Berkin, C., Bennett, B., & Chilton, K. (2021). The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South (Unabridged.). Recorded Books, Inc..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Eli, Faber et al.. 2021. The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South. [Prince Frederick, Maryland]: Recorded Books, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Eli, Faber et al.. The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South [Prince Frederick, Maryland]: Recorded Books, Inc, 2021.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Faber, E., Berkin, C., Bennett, B. and Chilton, K. (2021). The child in the electric chair: the execution of george junius stinney jr. and the making of a tragedy in the american south. Unabridged. [Prince Frederick, Maryland]: Recorded Books, Inc.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Faber, Eli,, Carol Berkin, Beresford Bennett, and Karen Chilton. The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South Unabridged., Recorded Books, Inc., 2021.

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