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Pearson, Carolyn (Sc 3377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearson, Carolyn (Sc 3377), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3377. “Shadow of a Rope,” a paper by WKU student Carolyn Pearson about the arrest and trial for rape of an African American man, Sam Jennings, and his 1932 execution, the last public hanging in Breckinridge County and the second-last in Kentucky. Pearson interviewed citizens connected with the case and included five photographs of Jennings on the scaffold.