| Description |
1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Resistance -- A parish to run -- Until death do us part -- A city reacts -- A killer speaks -- The building of a defense -- The engines of justice turn -- Black robes, white robes -- Trials and tribulations -- Shadow boxing -- A jury's verdict. |
| Summary |
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--who had secretly converted to Catholicism three months earlier--to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Having all but disappeared from historical memory, the murder of Father Coyle and the trial of Rev. Stephenson that followed are vi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Interracial marriage -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
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Interracial marriage. |
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Alabama -- Birmingham. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Anti-Catholicism -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
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Anti-Catholicism. |
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Murder -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
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Murder. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davies, Sharon L., 1960- Rising road. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010 9780195379792 (DLC) 2009018486 (OCoLC)367418436 |
| ISBN |
9780199701902 (electronic book) |
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0199701903 (electronic book) |
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9780195379792 |
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0195379799 |
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