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Bass, S. Jonathan, author.
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Washington, Caliph, 1939-2001.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Alabama -- History.
African American prisoners -- Alabama -- Biography.
Death row inmates -- Alabama -- Biography.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History.
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He calls me by light...
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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 / S. Jonathan Bass.
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Bass, S. Jonathan, author.
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2017.
Subjects
Washington, Caliph, 1939-2001.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Alabama -- History.
African American prisoners -- Alabama -- Biography.
Death row inmates -- Alabama -- Biography.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN:
9781631492372 (hardcover) :
1631492373 (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
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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" ... Reconstruction of the ... life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South"--
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
305.80097 Washington Ba
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