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The Birmingham horrors : being a complete and accurate account of Richard R. Hawes's murder of his wife, Emma, and daughters, May and Irene in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 3-4, 1888, and his casting their iron-weighted bodies into the lakes at East Lake and Lakeview, together with the subsequent story of the great Birmingham riot of December 8 during which an attempt was made by two thousand irate citizens to storm the jail and lynch the accused murderer, resulting in the massacre of a dozen citizens and the wounding of many more, and the mustering out of the Alabama State Militia, and the eventual trial, conviction, and public hanging of Hawes on February 28, 1890
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| Call number: | 364.1523 HOO | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Huntsville, Ala. : Strode Publishers, c1980. | ||||||||||||
| ISBN: | 0873971515 : | ||||||||||||
| Phys. Desc.: | 272 p. : ill., facsims., maps, plan, ports. ; 19 cm. | ||||||||||||
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2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
Last chance for justice : how relentless investigators uncovered new evidence convicting the Birmingham church bombers
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| Call number: | 364.1523 THO | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill books, [2013] | ||||||||||||
| ISBN: | 9781613748640 (cloth) | ||||||||||||
| Edition: | First edition. | ||||||||||||
| Phys. Desc.: | xvi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | ||||||||||||
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2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
The infamous Birmingham axe murders : prohibition gansters & vigilante justice
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| Call number: | 364.1523 GRA | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2018 | ||||||||||||
| ISBN: | 9781625858979 | ||||||||||||
| Phys. Desc.: | 140 pages : illustrations; 23 cm | ||||||||||||
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2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
Murder on Shades Mountain : the legal lynching of Willie Peterson and the struggle for justice in Jim Crow Birmingham
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| Call number: | 345.761 MOR | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | ||||||||||||
| ISBN: | 9780822371175 | ||||||||||||
| Phys. Desc.: | x, 256 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | ||||||||||||
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2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
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| Call number: | 323.1196 JON | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | New York : All Points Books, 2019. | ||||||||||||
| ISBN: | 9781250201447 | ||||||||||||
| Edition: | First edition. | ||||||||||||
| Phys. Desc.: | xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | ||||||||||||
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2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
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