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It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married St...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Sharon L., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Temas:
1900-1999
Interracial marriage > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Anti-Catholicism > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Murder > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Mariage interracial > Alabama > Birmingham > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anticatholicisme > Alabama > Birmingham > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Meurtre > Alabama > Birmingham > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
Anti-Catholicism
Interracial marriage
Murder
Alabama > Birmingham
History
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Sumario:It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth--who had secretly converted to Catholicism three months earlier--to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Having all but disappeared from historical memory, the murder of Father Coyle and the trial of Rev. Stephenson that followed are vi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (327 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199701902
0199701903

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