Organized Crime in the South in the 1950s
Professor Tammy Ingram talked about her book, The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South. In her bo… read more
Professor Tammy Ingram talked about her book, The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South. In her book, she looks at the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) in 1950 and 1951, and the field hearings the committee conducted in the South. close
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