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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.
Author Bass, S. Jonathan, author.
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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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 BW-Adult Collection  305.8009 BASS Nearby on shelf  30615005900526 01-11-18  AVAILABLE
 CK-Upper Level  305.8009 BAS Nearby on shelf  30601003493623 07-05-17  AVAILABLE
 CM-Non-Fiction  305.8009 Bas Nearby on shelf  30617002249733 (none)  AVAILABLE
 CW-Adult Upper Level Non-Fiction  305.8009 BAS  30620005289748 03-16-21  AVAILABLE
 EC-Main Level  305.800973 BASS Nearby on shelf  062791006976028 10-03-17  AVAILABLE
 EI-Adult Collection  305.8009 BAS  30626003148521 10-06-17  AVAILABLE
 EN-Non-Fiction  305.8009 BAS  30602002901939 07-10-17  AVAILABLE
 HF-Adult Nonfiction  305.8009 BAS  30632003553538 (none)  AVAILABLE
 HM-Main Level  305.8 BAS Nearby on shelf  31248008373340 10-15-17  AVAILABLE
 IS-Lower Stacks  305.8 BASS Nearby on shelf  30634003046042 (none)  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