Download PDF HereDownload The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Racial Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era
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The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn?t commitThe Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn?t commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it?s the story of Thurgood Marshall?s NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party?despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help?intent on winning the hearts and minds of Black voters. The bitter