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In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling electric chair - the only one of its kind in the country. His granddaughter explores this lost episode in America's early civil rights history.
By BBC World Service4.1
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In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling electric chair - the only one of its kind in the country. His granddaughter explores this lost episode in America's early civil rights history.

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