| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900–1960. By Lisa Lindquist Dorr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2841-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5514-6.)

Anyone familiar with Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) knows that when a black man was charged with the rape of a white woman in the Jim Crow South he was either lynched or, if the forces of moderation prevailed, given a trial. The progress of the South depended upon the administration of justice by the courts and not by the mob. Hence, the gentlemanly lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, was the hero of all the better folk in Maycomb, Alabama.

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