Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard

Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case

David E. Stannard

496 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark reflective fast-paced
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In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against t...

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