Posted on 07/19/2020 8:55:19 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
July 20, 1934 was the third and last of Walter Lett’s scheduled execution dates for raping a white woman in Monroeville, Alabama.
A thirty-something ex-convict, Lett’s protestations of innocence stood little chance against the word of a white woman named Naomi Lowery, herself a penniless drifter.
Lett was almost lynched but despite his certain condemnation there was something wrong about this case — something discomfiting even for Monroeville’s worthies. We have seen elsewhere in these pages that a rape accusation was a powerful weapon on the ambiguous fringes of the color line. Just three years before this story, nine black teens had been accused of a rape on an Alabama train, and the legal odyssey of these Scottsboro Boys would dominate headlines during the Depression.
“It may have been that [Lett] and Lowery were lovers, or that she was involved with another Negro man,” one author put it. “If a white woman became pregnant under those circumstances, it was not uncommon for her to claim rape, or accuse someone other than her lover.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Interesting article. If true, or even close to the truth about who Atticus Finch was modeled on, et. al, then this is called “projection”, a psychological tactic wherein one projects tributes/actions from a real person to a fictional one (in order to protect them, to make reality believable in a fictional setting, etc).
However, “To Kill A Mockingbird” was a beautiful and powerful movie for its time and it has lasted over time. I wonder if the BLM Marxists and their white puppetmasters will go after it because a white man was shown to be ethical enough to try and provide legal aid and justice for a wrongly accused black man.
I met the actress Mary Badham a number of years ago. She is a nice, gentle woman who helped to make the film the success that it is.
Enjoy these posts. Had read that To Kill a Mockingbird is fast becoming a banned book at libraries for usingthe “n” word.Anyone read the same?
That prohibition would kill off a big chunk of American “music” as well.
“To Kill A Mockingbird” says that a woman can lie about rape.
THAT is not acceptable; and the book is no longer studied in schools.
It joins Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Little House on the Prairie, as BANNED as being ideologically unsuitable.
(rap music is, however, perfectly acceptable)
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