Honor killing : Race, rape, and Clarence Darrow's spectacular last case /

Honor killing : Race, rape, and Clarence Darrow's spectacular last case /

"In 1931 Hawaiʻi, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five nonwhite men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, Thalia's mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered--an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an "honor killing."...

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Main Author: Stannard, David E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Penguin, 2006.
Subjects:
Fortescue, Grace, > 1883-1979 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Massie, Thomas H. > Trials, litigation, etc.
Massie, Thalia, > 1911-1963.
Kahahawai, Joseph, > 1909-1932.
Trials (Murder) > Hawaii > History > 20th century.
Trials (Rape) > Hawaii > History > 20th century.
Lynching > Hawaii > History > 20th century.
Hawaii > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Hawaii > History > 1900-1959.

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