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Rising Road takes one of the first "trials of the century," the murder of a catholic priest in 1920's Birmingham, Alabama, and brings it vividly to life.
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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... Google Books
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Rising Road takes one of the first "trials of the century," the murder of a catholic priest in 1920's Birmingham, Alabama, and brings it vividly to life.
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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, Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race and Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 352. $27.95.
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Since it takes place in 1921 Birmingham, Ala., the story's likely to involve race, gender relations, family authority, and religion, and not to be pretty.
Sharon Davies. Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 327 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-537979-2.
Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America is the compelling story of Alabama minister Edwin R. Stephenson's 1921 trial for the murder of ...
This thoroughly researched and well-written narrative recounts the murder of James Coyle, a Roman Catholic priest, on August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, ...
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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America by Davies, Sharon - ISBN 10: 0195379799 - ISBN 13: 9780195379792 - Oxford University Press ...