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  • Bass, S. Jonathan, author.
     
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  • Washington, Caliph, 1939-2001.
     
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  • Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Alabama -- History.
     
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  • African American prisoners -- Alabama -- Biography.
     
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  • Death row inmates -- Alabama -- Biography.
     
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  • Alabama -- Race relations -- History.
     
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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.
    by Bass, S. Jonathan, author.
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    New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2017.
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  • Washington, Caliph, 1939-2001.
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  • Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Alabama -- History.
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  • African American prisoners -- Alabama -- Biography.
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  • Death row inmates -- Alabama -- Biography.
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  • Alabama -- Race relations -- History.
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    9781631492372 (hardcover) :
    1631492373 (hardcover)
    Description: 
    xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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    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 LibrarySocial Science & Philosophy305.80097 Washington BaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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