Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

by SharonL.Davies (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $20.87

  Rising Road resurrects an infamous murder trial of the 1920s South. As Sharon Davies reveals with novelistic richness, the trial laid bare the most potent bigotries of the Jim Crow era: a hatred not only of blacks, but of Catholics and foreigners as well. In one of the case's most unexpected turns, the murderer hired future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to lead his defense.