LEADER 02965nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910455644603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-46582-1 010 $a9786612465826 010 $a0-19-970190-3 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006309 035 $a(EBL)480655 035 $a(OCoLC)551728235 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342468 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342468 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10286831 035 $a(PQKB)11566753 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC480655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL480655 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10362181 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL246582 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006309 100 $a20090529d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRising road$b[electronic resource] $ea true tale of love, race, and religion in America /$fSharon Davies 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-979445-6 311 $a0-19-537979-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aIt 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 606 $aInterracial marriage$zAlabama$zBirmingham$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAnti-Catholicism$zAlabama$zBirmingham$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMurder$zAlabama$zBirmingham$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInterracial marriage$xHistory 615 0$aAnti-Catholicism$xHistory 615 0$aMurder$xHistory 676 $a306.84 676 $a306.84/60976178109042 676 $a306.846 676 $a306.8460976 676 $a306.8460976178109042 700 $aDavies$b Sharon L.$f1960-$0892975 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455644603321 996 $aRising road$91994574 997 $aUNINA