03027nam 2200697Ia 450 991082900930332120200520144314.00-19-975249-41-282-46582-197866124658260-19-970190-3(CKB)2520000000006309(EBL)480655(OCoLC)551728235(SSID)ssj0000342468(PQKBManifestationID)11270117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342468(PQKBWorkID)10286831(PQKB)11566753(MiAaPQ)EBC480655(Au-PeEL)EBL480655(CaPaEBR)ebr10362181(CaONFJC)MIL246582(OCoLC)367418436(FINmELB)ELB165789(EXLCZ)99252000000000630920090529d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRising road a true tale of love, race, and religion in America /Sharon Davies1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20101 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-979445-6 0-19-537979-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIt 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 viInterracial marriageAlabamaBirminghamHistory20th centuryAnti-CatholicismAlabamaBirminghamHistory20th centuryMurderAlabamaBirminghamHistory20th centuryInterracial marriageHistoryAnti-CatholicismHistoryMurderHistory306.84306.84/60976178109042306.846306.8460976306.8460976178109042Davies Sharon L.1960-1676219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910829009303321Rising road4042289UNINA