11/20/2022 0 Comments Summer in the south bokeh video![]() ![]() The boy’s parents, who lived in a company house, were run out of town the day he was arrested and didn’t see their son until his trial.Īn all-white jury sentenced the teenager to death after 10 minutes of deliberation. The sheriff’s deputies who snatched Stinney up said he confessed to the crime when they took him in for questioning. A witness said had been seen talking to the girls earlier that day. Police said their killer used a railroad spike, and for the culprit, they fingered a 14-year-old black boy named George Stinney Jr. Two young white girls out picking flowers had their skulls bashed in and were found in a nearby water-filled ditch. The area he was marking with his shoe was the scene of a double murder in 1944. “Where they actually found the girls’ bodies, they say it was just along the tracks,” he said.įrierson is a local historian and community activist who works at the nearby Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church and serves on the county school board. ![]() But for blacks like him growing up in Alcolu, the train tracks signified something even more sinister than segregation. Back when he was a kid the rail line split this tiny, rural town along racial lines. It has a post office and a few churches, some abandoned houses and some nicer ones, ramshackle trailers and cotton fields.Īfter church on a recent Sunday, George Frierson scuffed his shiny black dress shoe across some gravel at a railroad crossing. This story was also published by the Center for Public Integrity.ĪLCOLU, S.C.– A few miles off I-95, past acres of brown-and-white fields where blackbirds circle overhead, this small town in the heart of Deep South cotton country isn’t known for much. ![]() Text by Corey Hutchins | Photos by Sean Rayford ![]()
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