The Color of Night: Race, Railroaders, and Murder in the Wartime West

by Max Geier

On an unusually cold January night in 1943, Martha James was murdered on a train in rural Oregon, near the Willamette Valley town of Albany. She was White, Southern, and newly-married to a Navy pilot. Despite inconsistent and contradictory eyewitness accounts, a young Black cook by the name of Robert Folkes, a trainman from South Central Los Angeles, was charged with the crime. The ensuing investigation and sensational murder trial captured national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870718207
• ISBN13: 9780870718205
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"