288 pages
36 photographs, 3 illustrations, 1 chronology, index
List of Illustrations
Preface
Dramatis Personae
A Note on Language
Prologue
Part 1. 1917
1. “A Love Match, Pure and Simple”
2. “Aren’t You Going to Come and Kiss Me?”
3. “Altogether Separate and Different Lives”
4. “All Annapolis Is Shocked”
5. “Not the Faintest Clue, Theory, or Speculation”
6. “The Woman Sherlock Holmes”
7. “The More Delicate Hand of a Woman”
8. “His Name Is Snowden”
9. “We Have Got This Negro Dead Right”
10. “A Maze of Circumstantial Evidence”
11. “I Ain’t Scared”
12. “Guilty Men and Women Do Not Always Confess”
13. “Fairer for the Man, the County, the State”
Part 2. 1918
14. “Most Heinous and Diabolical”
15. “Could Not Have Come from a White Person”
16. “It Was Ten Minutes after Eleven When I Got Up”
17. “The Man Shoved a Gun against My Head”
18. “The Homes of White Women Must Be Protected”
19. “Defending Snowden Is Defending the Black People of Maryland”
20. “We Have Found No Reversible Error”
Part 3. 1919
21. “I Forgive Their False Oaths”
22. “This Is No Case for Mercy”
23. “You Can Appeal to Me until Doomsday”
24. “I Could Not Leave This World with a Lie in My Mouth”
Part 4. 2000
25. “Race Is All Over This Case”
Part 5. 2001–3
26. “There’s Great Jubilation in the Community”
Afterword
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Index