Willie McGee (convict)
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Willie McGee (convict)
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Willie McGee was an African American man from Laurel, Mississippi, who was sentenced to death in 1945 and executed on Tuesday, May 8, 1951, after being controversially convicted for the rape of a white woman on November 2, 1945. McGee's legal case became a cause célèbre that attracted worldwide attention, as it was roundly decried as a miscarriage of justice in the Jim Crow south.
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African American man executed in 1951
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McGee_(convict)
date created:
2008-06-24T18:16:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:29:20Z
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