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He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
"A heroic reconstruction of the forgotten life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631492372
- ISBN: 1631492373
- Physical Description: xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York ; Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-385) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Steal Away -- A Hell of a Place -- "These White Folks Will Kill You" -- "In Bessemer, Anything Can Happen" -- A "Well Bound book" -- "Because It Was Self-Defense" -- A Violent and Accidental Death -- "There Are Lots of Ways to Fight" -- "I Just Say I Am Innocent" -- "You Belong to the State of Alabama" -- "Please Spare My Life" -- Called by Lightning -- A Thunderous Arrival -- Whereabouts Unknown -- Sinners to Convert -- Segregation's Last Stand -- "Sojourn in the Shadow of Death" -- "In a Wasted Land of No Want" -- "He Still Ain't Dead" -- "Set Me Free Dear Jesus" -- Conclusion: The Salvation Club. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. Biographies. Biography. History. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at State Library of Alabama.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| 245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aHe calls me by lightning : ‡bthe life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty / ‡cS. Jonathan Bass. |
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