Episode 30 - The Story of Virginia Christian - The Girl in the Electric Chair

In this episode we tell the story of the murder of Ida Belote and the execution of Virginia Christian.

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Virginia Christian

Ida Belote

Electric Chair

SOURCES

https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/christian-virginia.htm

https://morbidology.com/the-execution-of-virginia-christian/

http://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/forsaken/orphangirls

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2012/08/15/souls-of-the-departed-ida-v-belote/

https://sites.jmu.edu/valynchings/virginias-rocket-docket/

https://books.google.com/books?id=Yj4iTQ6t8EsC&lpg=PA70&ots=peS0YmDQfY&dq=Grant%20Me%20to%20Live%3A%20The%20Execution%20of%20Virginia%20Christian&pg=PP1#v=snippet&q=thirteen&f=false

https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/timeline/jimcrow.htm

https://www.virginiahistory.org/collections-and-resources/virginia-history-explorer/jim-crow-civil-rights-virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Crow_law_examples_by_state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1877

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution