Alex Heard, The Eyes of Willie McGee : A Tragedy of Race, Sex, & Secrets in the Jim Crow South Reviews

“The Eyes of Willie McGee : A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and...”

Written on: 04/05/2011 by Harriet Klausner (18660 reviews written)

The Eyes of Willie McGee : A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
Alex Heard
Harper, May 10 2011, $15.95
ISBN: 9780061284168

In 1945 black man Willie McGee is sentenced to death for raping Willette Hawkins a white woman in Mississippi. Six years later even with noted celebrities like Faulkner and Einstein and the Communist Party speaking in defense of "Free Willie McGee", the state executed him. Alex Heard provides a deep look at the case and the Jim Crow environment... (read more)