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Join teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy as they embark on an exhilarating journey fueled by their passion for aviation, a legacy from their late father. With dreams of creating a revolutionary aeroplane, they breathe life into their fathers unfinished project and name it ‘The Golden Butterfly.’ Determined to enter a prestigious young aviator’s contest with a grand prize of $5000, the Prescotts find themselves in a race against time to save their home from the clutches of the unscrupulous banker, Mr. Harding. Alongside their best friends, Jess and Jimsy Bancroft, the...

Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system of the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the line from slavery to the legal structures of this period—and through to today.