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Willie McGee (c. 1916 – May 8, 1951) was an African American man from Laurel, Mississippi, who was sentenced to death in 1945 and executed on Tuesday, May 8, 1951, after being controversially convicted for the rape of a white woman on November 2, 1945.
- Controversial conviction and execution
- Death
May 7, 2010 · The Case Of Willie McGee. In the fall of 1945, in the small town of Laurel, Miss., McGee, a young black man, was arrested on charges of raping a white housewife. The charges inflamed the town...
- Radio Diaries
On the night of May 7th, 1951, close to a thousand people gathered around the courthouse in the small town of Laurel, Mississippi. They had come to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a young black man convicted of raping a white woman. The local radio station was there at the courthouse...broadcasting the event live.
May 6, 2010 · An NPR radio documentary, “Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair,” recounts the trials and execution of a black man in a small Southern town.
May 7, 2018 · An all-white jury found McGee guilty and sentenced him to death in less than three minutes. McGee's case played out in three trials over the following six years and sparked international protests and appeals from Albert Einstein, William Faulkner and Josephine Baker. McGee was executed by electrocution in 1951.
In 1945, Willie McGee was accused of raping a white woman. The all-white jury took less than three minutes to find him guilty and McGee was sentenced to death. Over the next six years, the case went through three trials and sparked international protests and appeals from Albert Einstein, William Faulkner, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker.
Jul 6, 2020 · In November 1945, Willie McGee, a World War II veteran was arrested in Laurel Mississippi for the alleged rape of a white woman named Wiletta Hawkins. Hawkins claimed that McGee broke into her home and raped her while her husband was asleep in the next room, she reported the assault two days later.
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