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Author Bass, S. Jonathan, author.

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]

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 LewPL Nonfiction  305.896 B317h    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition.
Physical Description xvi, 413 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary " ... Reconstruction of the ... life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South"-- Provided by publisher.
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.