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One night of madness, Stokes McMillan

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One night of madness

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Stokes McMillan

The year was 1950. Mary Ella Harris, works hard sharecropping alongside her husband, a man with a penchant for gambling, drinking, and associating with unsavory white people. When she is cornered in her home by Leon Turner, a white man who refuses to take no for an answer, Mary Ella narrowly avoids an attempted rape. After his arrest, Leon escapes jail and enacts a bloody revenge with two accomplices. With the eyes of the nation watching, the state itself is on trial. The jury's controversial decision ultimately serves as a catalyst for change

The people. The Turners ; Leon ; The Harrises ; The Sheriff ; Hogjaw ; The Whitt brothers -- The crime. Into the cauldron ; Drunken trouble ; The ordeal ; Confined ; Mistaken revenge ; Survival and death ; Escape from Attala ; On the lam ; The circle tightens -- The trials. Public reaction ; Preparation for trail ; The Windol Whitt trial ; Mississippi on trial ; Aftermath