Ep. 37 - To Kill a Milton
The Novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," written by Harper Lee, has been translated into over 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies, been made into a movie and won a Pulitzer Prize. The story was set in a fictional southern town in the state of Alabama and tells the story of a black man, Tom Robinson, living in the South during the Great Depression and what happens when he is accused of rape by a white woman. A prominent white lawyer named Atticus Finch defends him masterfully and yet, Robinson is convicted and eventually killed when he tries to escape custody. It was as though Harper Lee had heard the true story of Robert Milton. Milton was a black man accused of rape by a white teenager in 1920s Mississippi. He was convicted and executed and most people believe he was an innocent man. Perhaps that is why he haunts the courthouse where he was hanged, the Old Tishomingo County Courthouse. Join us for this compelling story of how rape was treated in the 1920s,