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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Bass, S. Jonathan,
Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Main Library - Adult
305.8009761 Bas
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Published
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
" ... Reconstruction of the ... life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South"--,Provided by publisher.

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LC Subjects
African American prisoners -- Alabama -- Biography.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History.
Biographies.
Death row inmates -- Alabama -- Biography.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Alabama -- History.
Washington, Caliph, -- 1939-2001.
Bisac Subjects
History / African American.
History / United States / 20th Century.
History / United States / State & Local / South (al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, Ms, Nc, Sc, Tn, Va, Wv)
Law / Legal History.