A.J. Whittenberg Jr. oral history interview, 1982 December 13
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Whittenberg, A. J., Jr. (interviewee) Gravely, William (interviewer)
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An oral history interview by William Gravely with A.J. Whittenberg Jr., on December 13, 1982. Whittenberg provides details of earlier incidents with several of the defendants in the court case concerning suspected members of the lynching mob which killed Willie Earle in 1947, including a drunk cabdriver who reportedly got away with running over a young African American boy. Whittenberg also told of an African American domestic worker's account from around the time of the lynching of washing blood out of a shirt belonging to her employer, who was later one of the defendants in the lynch mob court case. Other topics in the interview are Whittenberg's own account of seeing Willie Earle's corpse in the morgue, as well as his opinion on the significance of Willie Earle's death and other community stories, political efforts, and civil rights campaigns. A final transcript is included.
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