Closed ranks : the Whitehurst case in post-civil rights Montgomery / Foster J. Dickson.

By:

Dickson, Foster [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher number: EB00773879 | Recorded BooksPublisher: Montgomery, Alabama : NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc., [2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781588383631
1588383636

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Closed ranks.DDC classification:

344.76105/232 23

LOC classification:

KF224.W525 D53 2018eb

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Introductory note -- Post-civil rights Montgomery -- Who was Bernard Whitehurst Jr.? -- The death of Bernard Whitehurst Jr. -- Family complications -- The immediate political aftermath -- The closing of the ranks -- Rabbit trails in the records -- The fever pitch, early 1977 -- In Emory Folmar's Montgomery -- An incomplete narrative -- Epilogue : a changed city?

Summary: Closed Ranks tells the latter-day story of the Whitehurst Case, a 1975 police shooting in Montgomery, Alabama. In the era of the ""fleeing felon rule, "" African-American victim Bernard Whitehurst Jr. was denied justice by police who planted a gun, courts who ruled against his family, and city officials who wanted to put the controversy behind them. In the forty years since, the Whitehurst Case has lingered as an open wound for his family, who are still waiting for the true story to be told

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes index.

Print version record.

Closed Ranks tells the latter-day story of the Whitehurst Case, a 1975 police shooting in Montgomery, Alabama. In the era of the ""fleeing felon rule, "" African-American victim Bernard Whitehurst Jr. was denied justice by police who planted a gun, courts who ruled against his family, and city officials who wanted to put the controversy behind them. In the forty years since, the Whitehurst Case has lingered as an open wound for his family, who are still waiting for the true story to be told

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.