The Devils̕ New Walk
Author | : Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
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Author | : Stanley Nelson |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0807164097 |
After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building ablaze. A shotgun pointed to Morris’s head blocked his escape from the flames. Four days later Morris died, though he managed in his last hours to describe his attackers to the FBI. Frank Morris’s death was one of several Klan murders that terrorized residents of northeast Louisiana and Mississippi, as the perpetrators continued to elude prosecution during this brutal era in American history. In Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize finalist and journalist Stanley Nelson details his investigation—alongside renewed FBI attention—into these cold cases, as he uncovers the names of the Klan’s key members as well as systemized corruption and coordinated deception by those charged with protecting all citizens. Devils Walking recounts the little-known facts and haunting stories that came to light from Nelson’s hundreds of interviews with both witnesses and suspects. His research points to the development of a particularly virulent local faction of the Klan who used terror and violence to stop integration and end the advancement of civil rights. Secretly led by the savage and cunning factory worker Red Glover, these Klansmen—a handpicked group that included local police officers and sheriff’s deputies—discarded Klan robes for civilian clothes and formed the underground Silver Dollar Group, carrying a silver dollar as a sign of unity. Their eight known victims, mostly African American men, ranged in age from nineteen to sixty-seven and included one Klansman seeking redemption for his past actions. Following the 2007 FBI reopening of unsolved civil rights–era cases, Nelson’s articles in the Concordia Sentinel prompted the first grand jury hearing for these crimes. By unmasking those responsible for these atrocities and giving a voice to the victims’ families, Devils Walking demonstrates the importance of confronting and addressing the traumatic legacy of racism.
Author | : Luis Alberto Urrea |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2008-11-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 031604928X |
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
Author | : James F. McCloy |
Publisher | : B B& A Publishers |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780912608112 |
In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print
Author | : Anne Fine |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 085753064X |
Daniel is raised as an invalid in isolation by his mother until the day she is removed to an asylum and Daniel is taken to live with the doctor's family. Soon Daniel begins to uncover secrets about his mother's dark family history, and a sinister doll seems to be at the centre of the mystery. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
Author | : Louise Penny |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250145252 |
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PARADE MAGAZINE – ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS AARP'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL CRIMEREADS – ONE OF THE BEST TRADITIONAL MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR GLOBE AND MAIL - TOP 100 BOOKS OF THE YEAR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS - ONE OF THE BEST MYSTERIES/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR LIBRARY JOURNAL - ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.
Author | : Gregor Joseph Kranjc |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442613300 |
Examining archival material and post-war scholarly and popular literature, Kranjc describes the often sharp divide between Communist-era interpretations of collaboration and those of their émigré anti-Communist opponents.
Author | : Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Devil |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M. J. Brown |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-08-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781544989242 |
Taking place on the crack infested, gang riddled streets of Oklahoma City... between the years of 89-93... a web of betrayal and murder is weaved as four young violent gang members push their viscous brand of justice... but with each body, the plot thickens as betrayal darkens and rises to an explosive climax that you will never see coming. Written in detailed, raw, first person script, this tale will have you gasping for air and holding on to your seat with each roller coaster like twist...
Author | : Alvin Howard Sanders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : |