The Trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp et al.: An Account
1.THE FACT2.THE TRIAL AND APPEALS3.THE LYNCHING OF ED JOHNSON4.TRIAL IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
THE FACTThe Shipp trial has its roots in a rape that took place on a dark January evening in 1906 the St. Elmo district of Chattanooga. On January 23, 1906,Twenty-one-year old Nevada Taylor, on her way home from her bookkeeping job in downtown Chattanooga, is raped by a black man "with a soft, kind voice" shortly after 6:30 p.m. in St ...