Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Auteurs

• Beverly Lowry

Paramètres

• 500 pages
• 18 heures de lecture

• Biographies et réflexions
• Fiction
• Histoire
• Mystère / Thrillers
• Nonfiction

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In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left face down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free.

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• Année de publication: 2022
• Reliure: (rigide)