Lexington is another of Faulkner’s “little postage-stamps,” a microcosm of humanity which just happens to be in Mississippi. The time of the title was the mid 1950s when Jim Crow oppressed everyone, putting the trash on top of all, black and white. The blacks suffered the visible injustice, the whites got theirs behind the scenes, until one night, one young black fellow had enough and gunned down six white men, three to death.
How he managed to elude capture and courts (though he suffered incarceration) and Mississippi’s then-traveling electric chair, is a saga worthy of myth. Oxford, MS corporate lawyer Allie Povall, a Lexington native who was twelve at the time, makes the most of it. Almost too much, with his atmospherics, making the clouds, the rain and wind stand-in for what another age would have expressed as divine judgement. His conclusions about why Eddie Noel not only was not executed for premeditated murder but lived into old age a free man, i.e. that blood will tell and prominent white blood could get even a black man off, isn’t very creditable. But it’s certainly worth considering.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I am very interested in obtaining a review copy of this work, having been quoted in it in several places, from information my friends and associates from Holmes County, MS, have relayed to me.
Thanking you for spreading the word on this very important figure in the history of this country, him falling between the Brown versus Board of Education decision and the Emmett Till murder. Thanks for your kind response to my request.
Sorry, I have no idea how you’d get a review copy, i.e. a free one, unless you write the publisher. A friend in Lexington sent me mine. You can, of course, buy a copy at Amazon.com, after you search for the book title. Thanks for commenting.