Stuart, a white store manager, fatally shot his pregnant wife and placed the blame on an imaginary black assailant.
The teenager had been said to have had the temerity to talk to a white store keeper, Carolyn Bryant.
The narrow white store puts its wares out on a 24-foot-long chilled marble display counter.
How, in Emelle, Ala., on July 4 , 1930 his grandfather and uncles found themselves in an argument with a white store owner over a car battery.
According to a sworn statement from a witness, law enforcement officials tipped off a white store owner about the investigation and recommended ways to avoid scrutiny.
In their blue bandannas and white store-bought shirts worn open at the neck, they look like the chorus from the ballet "Rodeo".
Her bright little white store is called Food and is at 58, rue Charlot, on the Right Bank near the Place de la République.
That acclaimed book recounts how, in 1970, the author's hometown, Oxford, N.C., erupted in racial turmoil after an all-white jury acquitted a white store owner and one of his sons of the murder of a young black man.
Over at Garnish (No. 1524; 503-282-3200; www.garnishapparel.com), you might catch the owner, Erica Lurie, a former Adidas apparel developer, arranging colorful knit skirts on the sidewalk or taking measurements inside her narrow white store.
After one of her friends was lynched by rival white store owners, Wells-Barnett denounced the act in her paper's pages, and spent two months traveling in the south, gathering stories about other such lynchings.
