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by Sarah Thompson (Author)
Twenty-four years prior to Emmit Till, the Hawaiian islands was home to one of the most controversial racial trials in American history. Thalia Massie was found one late summer night in Honolulu wandering the streets. She was disheveled, beaten and battered. Claiming she was raped by a "gang of Hawaiians", the local police gathered a group of men whom they thought were most likely to be capable of such a crime. During the ensuing trial, the men were released as the jury could not come to a conclusion. But Thalia's mother, Grace Fortescue, had other ideas. She would not allow the soiling of her daughter to go unpunished. Taking the law into her own hands, she decided to hunt the men down one by one. But was Thalia telling the whole truth
