Through the summer twilight in the Depression-era South, word
begins to circulate of a black man accosting a white woman. In no
time the awful forces of public opinion and political expediency
goad the separate fears and frustrations of a small southern
community into the single-mindedness of a mob.
Erskine Caldwell shows the lynching of Sonny Clark through many
eyes. However, Caldwell reserves some of his most powerful passages
for the few who truly held Clark's life in their hands but let it
go: people like Sheriff Jeff McCurtain, who did nothing to disperse
the mob; Harvey Glenn, who found Clark in hiding and turned him in;
and Katy Barlow, who withdrew her false charge of rape only after
Clark was dead.
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