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



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Autore: Davies Sharon L. <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rising road : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America / / Sharon Davies Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
Disciplina: 306.84
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Soggetto topico: Interracial marriage - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century
Anti-Catholicism - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century
Murder - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century
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
Titolo autorizzato: Rising road  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-975249-4
1-282-46582-1
9786612465826
0-19-970190-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910829009303321
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