Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
by
David E. Stannard
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
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 the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung...