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Title He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty / S. Jonathan Bass.
Publisher New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs (black and white) ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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 PJ-Lower Stacks  305.8009 BAS Nearby on shelf  30644002941721 01-03-22  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A reconstruction of the forgotten life of a wrongly convicted man whose story became representative of the Jim Crow South outlines the case's Kafka-esque legal odyssey involving nearly a dozen interrupted trips to the electric chair and the three conviction overturns that were required to secure his release.
Subject Washington, Caliph, 1939-2001.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Alabama -- History.
African American prisoners -- Alabama -- Biography.
Death row inmates -- Alabama -- Biography.
Alabama -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN 9781631492372
1631492373