He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
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Caliph Washington didn't pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South. As He Calls Me by Lightning painstakingly chronicles, Washington, then a seventeen-year-old simply returning home after a double date, was swiftly arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to death by...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1631492373
ISBN13:9781631492372
Release Date:May 2017
Publisher:Liveright Publishing Corporation
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.78 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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