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A MISSISSIPPI TOWN HANGS A KLAN MEMBER (CIVIL RIGHTS--KLAN.) GRIFFITH, FRANCES WILLIAMS. True Life Story of Will Purvis (cover title). Photographically illustrated. 58 pages. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers; a few faint damp-stains to the upper covers. Purvis, Mississippi: The Booster Publishing Company, 1935
The autobiography of Will Purvis, a member of the "White Caps" (a Klan spin-off), who was accused of a murder prompted by the flogging of a Negro farm hand. Purvis was lynched and survived when the noose unraveled. He was sent to a work farm, and exonerated 20 years later when another White Cap confessed.
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