Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America
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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.
Sharon Davies's Rising Road resurrects the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199794456
ISBN13:9780199794454
Release Date:April 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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