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Author: Frances Osborn Robb
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2017-01-10
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 081731878X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium
Author: Jeremy W. Gray
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1467146013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While men commit most of Alabama's crimes, women have written some of the darkest chapters in state history. Poisoners who murdered dozens. A mob icon who captivated millions. An anti-government cop killer. A madam whose courage lifted her from shame to legend. A mummified woman shrouded in mystery. Whether they enjoyed the spotlight or weaponized their status as unlikely suspects, these women left scandal and misery in their wake. Journalist Jeremy W. Gray digs into the sordid mess left behind by some of the most notorious women in Alabama history.
Author: R. J. Young
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1328826333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest--funny and searing--of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun better than a white person
Author: Casey N. Cep
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1101947861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Author: Frances Osborn Robb
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 9780817388782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pete Earley
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780553573480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A piercing, provocative true story that is also a commentary on our system of justice, centered around a wrongful murder conviction that bares the dark side of the American soul. This book highlights a case that was front page news--featured on "60 Minutes", in The New York Times in 1993.
Author: Brian Lee Tucker
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-02-06
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781507854969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“I sure never planned it this way. I was a pretty normal kid, I guess. Then again, when you've spent half of your life chasing ghosts, you tend to lose track of time in the sense that most of us experience it {Pause} they say life's a bitch and then you die; there is no God or guardian angels or divine intervention. You were born alone and you die alone. Life was a bitch and then you died. Game over.” so quoted killer Michael Kenneth McClendon. On March 10, 2009, Michael Kenneth McLendon, 28, shot and killed ten people in a shooting spree in three communities in two southern Alabama counties: Kinston in Coffee County, and Samson and Geneva in Geneva County. Five of the victims were family members and two were children. After engaging in an exchange of fire with police, he committed suicide, bringing the total of dead to eleven. Officials at the time said this was the worst shooting event in Alabama history. The aftermath of his crime left one burning question above all others; WHY? No one knows for sure what sent McClendon into the deadly rampage that killed eleven people, including himself, and wounded others. Those who might have known the reasons, his own relatives, were the apparent targets of his rage. Victims ranged in age from 18 months to 74-years-old. In RAMPAGE: THE GENEVA COUNTY MASSACRE, author Brian Lee Tucker, using eye witness testimony, documented interviews, newspaper coverage, and magazine articles, has created an in depth look into the mind of a seemingly normal young man who, unknown to all around him, harbored inner demons that could not be tamed without the urge to kill.
Author: Sharon Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-02-16
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0199701903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Sharon Davies's Rising Road resurrects the murder of Father Coyle and the trial of his killer. As Davies reveals with novelistic richness, Stephenson's crime laid bare the most potent bigotries of the age: a hatred not only of blacks, but of Catholics and "foreigners" as well. In one of the case's most unexpected turns, the minister hired future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to lead his defense. Though regarded later in life as a civil rights champion, in 1921 Black was just months away from donning the robes of the Ku Klux Klan, the secret order that financed Stephenson's defense. Entering a plea of temporary insanity, Black defended the minister on claims that the Catholics had robbed Ruth away from her true Protestant faith, and that her Puerto Rican husband was actually black. Placing the story in social and historical context, Davies brings this heinous crime and its aftermath back to life, in a brilliant and engrossing examination of the wages of prejudice and a trial that shook the nation at the height of Jim Crow. "Davies takes us deep into the dark heart of the Jim Crow South, where she uncovers a searing story of love, faith, bigotry and violence. Rising Road is a history so powerful, so compelling it stays with you long after you've finished its final page." --Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice "This gripping history...has all the makings of a Hollywood movie. Drama aside, Rising Road also happens to be a fine work of history." --History News Network
Author: Melanie S. Morrison
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-03-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0822371677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets, and dozens of black men were arrested in the largest manhunt in Jefferson County history. Weeks later, Nell identified Willie Peterson as the attacker who killed her sister Augusta and their friend Jennie Wood. With the exception of being black, Peterson bore little resemblance to the description Nell gave the police. An all-white jury convicted Peterson of murder and sentenced him to death. In Murder on Shades Mountain Melanie S. Morrison tells the gripping and tragic story of the attack and its aftermath—events that shook Birmingham to its core. Having first heard the story from her father—who dated Nell's youngest sister when he was a teenager—Morrison scoured the historical archives and documented the black-led campaigns that sought to overturn Peterson's unjust conviction, spearheaded by the NAACP and the Communist Party. The travesty of justice suffered by Peterson reveals how the judicial system could function as a lynch mob in the Jim Crow South. Murder on Shades Mountain also sheds new light on the struggle for justice in Depression-era Birmingham. This riveting narrative is a testament to the courageous predecessors of present-day movements that demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and the criminalization of black men.
Author: Michele R. McPhee
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-06-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781429968317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama–Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down...and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined. On February 13, 2010, Amy was charged with murder for opening fire in a staff meeting the day before, killing three colleagues and injuring others. How could one woman's fury unleash such destruction? While the campus massacre made national headlines, authorities began a thorough investigation and uncovered another chilling episode in Amy's past. When she was twenty-one, Amy fatally shot her teenage brother, Seth. His death was ruled an accident—and no charges were pressed. But for many involved in the case, Amy's story didn't add up, and law-enforcement officials suspected it was murder...After the Huntsville rampage, the cold case was reopened and Amy would find herself charged with killing her own brother—murder in the first degree. If Amy had been found guilty twenty-four years earlier, three lives might have been saved. A Professor's Rage is the chilling true story of an intelligent woman with a secret past ... a past that would burst out in a shocking killing.
