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S. Jonathan Bass

He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

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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.As He Calls Me by Lightning painstakingly chronicles, Washington, then a seventeen-year-old simply returning home after a double date, was swiftly arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to death by an all-white jury. The young man endured the horrors of a hellish prison system for thirteen years, a term that included various stints on death row fearing the lightning of the electric chair. Twentieth-century… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63149-237-2
  • EAN: 9781631492372
  • Produktnummer: 19992184
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.

Über den Autor


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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