I’m currently reading a terrific book titled “The Eyes of Willie McGee” by Alex Heard. I am only halfway through the book at this point but it is incredibly fascinating. I will write about the case after I finish the book. In the meantime, you can listen to information about the case at radio diaries.

Lynchsong was a poem written in 1951 by a then 21 year old Lorraine Hansberry and she references the McGee case in it.

I can hear Rosalee
See the eyes of Willie McGee
My mother told me about
Lynchings
My mother told me about
The dark nights
And dirt roads
And torch lights
And lynch robes

The
faces of men
Laughing white
Faces of men
Dead in the night
sorrow night
and a
sorrow night