- On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
- “Though Wallace and Sammie Lee were both minors, they were eligible for execution under the law at the time; the U.S. Supreme Court did not ban the execution of children until 2005.”
- Jesus how horrible that this happened and every white person just went on with their daily lives. That woman and those two boys had family; people who loved and mourned them. And there are probably dozens of stories just like this one.Feb 4, 2026 14:13
- Their sentence was reduced to life and then years later they were paroled but their lives were ruined for defending themselves from the landowner that they sharecropped for. So a different version of slavery.
