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The color of night : race, railroaders, and murder in the wartime West / Max G. Geier.

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"On an unusually cold January night in 1943, Martha James was murdered on a train in rural Oregon, near the Willamette Valley town of Albany. She was White, Southern, and newly-married to a Navy pilot. Despite inconsistent and contradictory eyewitness accounts, a young Black cook by the name of...

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Main Author: Geier, Max G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African American railroad employees > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women, White > Crimes against > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
Murder > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
Folkes, Robert E. Lee, > 1923-1945.
James, Martha Virginia Brinson, > 1921-1943.
Trials (Murder) > Oregon > Albany > History > 20th century.
Racism > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Oregon > Willamette River Valley > History > 20th century.
Willamette River Valley (Or.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Oregon > Willamette River Valley.

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