Claude Martin was a forty-two-year-old white man serving as a prison trusty guard for the Arkansas Department of Corrections at the Cummins Unit in the flat river country of Lincoln County when his life ended violently on Labor Day, September 2, 1940. The prison farm was a harsh place, a sprawling agricultural camp where men in striped uniforms worked the fields under the watch of armed trusties—prisoners themselves who had been given guns and authority in exchange for a fragile measure of fav
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