Sharon Davies

Rising Road

A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Rising Road resurrects an infamous murder trial of the 1920s South. As Sharon Davies reveals with novelistic richness, the trial laid bare the most potent bigotries of the Jim Crow era: a hatred not only of blacks, but of Catholics and "foreigners" as well. In one of the case's most unexpected turns, the murderer hired future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to lead his defense.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780199794454
• ISBN-10: 0199794456
• Artikelnr.: 32460487

Autorenporträt

Sharon Davies is the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law at the Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Best Laid Plans
2. A Parish to Run
3. Until Death Do Us Part
4. A City Reacts
5. A Killer Speaks
6. The Building of a Defense
7. The Engines of Justice Turn
8. Black Robes, White Robes
9. Trials and Tribulations
10. A Jury's Verdict
Epilogue