Honor killing
Trials (Rape)
Lynching
United states, history, 20th century
Rape
Trials (Murder)
Trials, litigation
Minorities
Investigation
Race relations
History
In the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects was scant and the trial ended in a hung j…
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