The Price of Borrowed Coffee: The Eighty-Year Pursuit of Justice for Charlie Lee Price

For those who’ve read By Hands Now Known, dive into a singular case of hidden injustice after eighty years of silence from the Jim Crow South.

In the summer of 1945, the law in Cooktown, Georgia, didn’t seek the truth—it sought a scapegoat.

When “Mae” Cook was found murdered, the town’s rage fell onto Charlie Lee Price, a young Black man whose speech disorder left him defenseless against a mob. He was accused, hunted, and killed without trial after already enduring a lifetime of abuse.

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