Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

ISBN-13: 9780195379792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

Sharon L. Davies

Opis

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 to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic.

Recenzje

prodigiously researched ... offers a vivid example of the ways that changing constructions of race intertwined with social and political conservatism in 1920s America

O autorze

Sharon Davies is the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Designated Professor of Law at Ohio State University. A specialist in criminal law and procedure, she has published widely in prominent law journals and served as chairperson of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She received a Senior Faculty Fellowship from Ohio State's Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity to support her research for this book.