Do you know what happened to Honeycutt? This was the question my grandfather asked me just before I entered my first college semester.
Today, I am happy to say that my education and professional career have afforded me the opportunity to have a better life than so many other black Americans in the past.
However, his question always stuck with me.
Thus, I was compelled to research the case of lynching victim Edward Honeycutt.
I was forced to question myself, From the early 1700's to the 1950's, could a black man receive a fair trial in the St.
Landry Parish Court System? This a case study that covers the trial Edward Honeycutt; the case of Plessey v.
Ferguson, separate but equal; and the undeniable fact that Black Justice Matters.
Omniversal Publishing House Guilty honeycutt - jim crow justice: black justice matters, paperback/wilken jones
