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Thirteen Loops
B. J. Hollars
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Description for Thirteen Loops
A vivid and troubling portrait of violence, lynching, and race relations over a fifty-year period in the state of Alabama. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in Birmingham, and Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile. The death of Vaudine Maddox--and the lynchings that followed--serves as a cautionary tale about the violence that occurred in the same region nearly fifty-years later, highlighting the cowardice, ignorance, and happenstance that sustained a culture of racial intolerance far into the future. ""Nearly half a century later, after a black bank ... Read more
Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in Birmingham, and Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile. The death of Vaudine Maddox--and the lynchings that followed--serves as a cautionary tale about the violence that occurred in the same region nearly fifty-years later, highlighting the cowardice, ignorance, and happenstance that sustained a culture of racial intolerance far into the future. ""Nearly half a century later, after a black bank ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817317539
SKU
V9780817317539
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