Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is also the author of Dixie's Daughters, which won the Julia Cherry Spruill prize for the best book in southern women's history, and Dreaming of Dixie.
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In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery, enlisted an African ... SEE MORE