One month shy of her 13th birthday in 1952, the author watched as a portable electric chair was off-loaded from a huge flatbed truck and into the Simpson County courthouse.
She spent six months in the Simpson County jail before several Negro farmers posted bail for her to be released and reunited wit.
She lost the baby.
His wife, Martha Lee Durr, eight-months pregnant, was arrested, charged with accessory to murder.
A Negro man who had killed a constable in 1951 was to be electrocuted that night.
One month shy of her 13th birthday in 1952, the author watched as a portable electric chair was off-loaded from a huge flatbed truck and into the Simpson County courthouse