Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Granddaughter's Search for the Truth > Comments > "Poignant and powerful"
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- Rob Shinnick
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- Location: Brunswick, Georgia
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- "Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Granddaughter's Search for the Truth"
- Summary: In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a quest to unearth everything she can about his life - and his death.
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Poignant and powerful
Rob Shinnick
Posted on November 14, 2010 at 04:01 AM
I enjoyed this piece very much.