Willie James Tolbert (circa 1925 – October 28, 1949) was an African-American man from Greenwood, South Carolina, who was convicted of raping a white woman on August 8, 1949 and executed by electric chair on October 28, 1949.[1] AP News stories about the three-day manhunt, trial, and execution of Tolbert were picked up by papers across the nation. Tolbert maintained in interviews with his lawyer and the press that the sex he had with the woman was consensual and that he was unable to testify in his own defense during the trial because he was warned not to by the county sheriff. Two separate reporters, Deling Booth and John Henry McCray who published articles providing Tolbert's version of the events were charged with criminal libel following Tolbert's execution.[2][3]
^"Tolbert Dies: Pays With Life For Assault." Columbia Record, Vol. LIII, No. 161, 28 October 1949, pg. 1.
^Bedingfield, Sid. Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935-65. University of Illinois Press, 2017, pgs. 123-26.
^"Sheriff Denies Tolbert Told Not To Testify." The Index-Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 243, 28 October 1949, pg. 1, 5.
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