As Farrell points out, Thurmond and Holmes are unusual for victims of lynching in that they were white men.
Thank you; this case makes sense of something that has always puzzled me about Fritz Lang's otherwise interesting Fury (1936), namely that it's a movie about the injustice of lynching whose victim is white (and not Jewish, otherwise I would have known to look to Leo Frank). I had always assumed it starred Spencer Tracy as a Code-compliant way of presenting the problem, but if there was a very recent example of a high-profile, white-on-white lynching in popular memory, then I can see how it was actually relevant (as well as more palatable to the studios than a picture that acknowledged the racial angle).
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Date: 2016-06-11 07:52 pm (UTC)Thank you; this case makes sense of something that has always puzzled me about Fritz Lang's otherwise interesting Fury (1936), namely that it's a movie about the injustice of lynching whose victim is white (and not Jewish, otherwise I would have known to look to Leo Frank). I had always assumed it starred Spencer Tracy as a Code-compliant way of presenting the problem, but if there was a very recent example of a high-profile, white-on-white lynching in popular memory, then I can see how it was actually relevant (as well as more palatable to the studios than a picture that acknowledged the racial angle).