Rising road : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America / Sharon Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Sharon L., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interracial marriage--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.

Interracial marriage.

Anti-Catholicism--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.

Anti-Catholicism.

Murder--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.

Murder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Contents; Prologue; ONE: Resistance; TWO: A Parish to Run; THREE: Until Death Do Us Part; FOUR: A City Reacts; FIVE: A Killer Speaks; SIX: The Building of a Defense; SEVEN: The Engines of Justice Turn; EIGHT: Black Robes, White Robes; NINE: Trials and Tribulations; TEN: Shadow Boxing; ELEVEN: A Jury's Verdict; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-975249-4

1-282-46582-1

9786612465826

0-19-970190-3

OCLC:

551728235