The Holly : five bullets, one gun, and the struggle to save an American neighborhood / Julian Rubinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubinstein, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangs--Colorado--Denver.

Gangs.

Gang prevention--Colorado--Denver.

Gang prevention.

Violent crimes--Colorado--Denver--Prevention.

Violent crimes.

Community development--Colorado--Denver.

Community development.

Violent crimes--Prevention.

Colorado--Denver.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

xii, 380 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"A history of the Denver neighborhood known as the Holly and the controversial anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts"-- Provided by publisher.

On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an "invisible city" within a historically white metropolis. The shooter, Terrance Roberts, was a revered anti-gang activist. Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. The result is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, exploring the porous boundaries between a city's elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. -- adapted from jacket

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-378).

ISBN:

9780374168919

0374168911

OCLC:

1182568428