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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455644603321

Autore

Davies Sharon L. <1960->

Titolo

Rising road [[electronic resource] ] : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America / / Sharon Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-46582-1

9786612465826

0-19-970190-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

306.84

306.84/60976178109042

306.846

306.8460976

306.8460976178109042

Soggetti

Interracial marriage - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century

Anti-Catholicism - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century

Murder - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prologue; ONE: Resistance; TWO: A Parish to Run; THREE: Until Death Do Us Part; FOUR: A City Reacts; FIVE: A Killer Speaks; SIX: The Building of a Defense; SEVEN: The Engines of Justice Turn; EIGHT: Black Robes, White Robes; NINE: Trials and Tribulations; TEN: Shadow Boxing; ELEVEN: A Jury's Verdict; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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