He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
Caliph Washington didn't pull the trigger but, as Officer James Cowboy Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South.Widely lauded for its searing insight into a history of America that can no longer be left unknown (Washington Post), He Calls Me by Lightning is an absorbing chronicle (Ira Katznelson) of the forgotten life of Caliph Washington that becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era. Washington, a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, was wrongfully convicte…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63149-452-9
- EAN: 9781631494529
- Produktnummer: 24210304
- Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.8 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
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S. Jonathan Bass is a professor at Alabama's Samford University and the author of Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
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