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Murder on Shades Mountain : The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham /
"One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the wood...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction--Part 1 Danger in the Magic City
- August 4, 1931
- A city beset by fear
- Reign of terror in the black community
- Fear, loathing, and oblivion in the white community
- Part 2 Trials and Tribulations
- The arrest: September 23, 1931
- Attempted murder
- Grand jury testimonies
- The NAACP comes to life
- Mounting the defense
- House of pain
- "A temporarily dethroned mind"
- "An outrageous spectacle of injustice"
- A tumultuous year
- Part 3 Never Turning Back
- Staying on the firing line
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- A lynching in Tuscaloosa
- Moving the case forward
- No Negroes allowed
- A flood of letters
- A multitude of regrets
- Grave doubts as to his guilt
- Jim Crow justice
- Epilogue: the community that kept faith
- Afterword: letter to my father.