Locked Up for Freedom
Title | Locked Up for Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Heather E. Schwartz |
Publisher | Millbrook Press |
Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1467785970 |
"In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11-14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade."--Provided by publisher.
The Sun Does Shine
Title | The Sun Does Shine PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Ray Hinton |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250124719 |
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Journey to Jo'Burg
Title | Journey to Jo'Burg PDF eBook |
Author | Beverley Naidoo |
Publisher | HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780008523305 |
This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Modern Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.
Manifest Injustice
Title | Manifest Injustice PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Siegel |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 2013-01-22 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1429947330 |
In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious crime scene on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert: an abandoned car and two bodies. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff 's department of Maricopa County for years. Despite a few promising leads—including several chilling confessions from Ernest Valenzuela, a violent repeat offender—the case went cold. More than a decade later, a clerk in the sheriff 's department, Carol Macumber, came forward to tell police that her estranged husband had confessed to the murders. Though the evidence linking Bill Macumber to the incident was questionable, he was arrested and charged with the crime. During his trial, the judge refused to allow the confession of now-deceased Ernest Valenzuela to be admitted as evidence in part because of the attorney-client privilege. Bill Macumber was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. The case, rife with extraordinary irregularities, attracted the sustained involvement of the Arizona Justice Project, one of the first and most respected of the non-profit groups that represent victims of manifest injustice across the country. With more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie, Macumber's story illuminates startling, upsetting truths about our justice system, which kept a possibly innocent man locked up for almost forty years, and introduces readers to the generations of dedicated lawyers who never stopped working on his behalf, lawyers who ultimately achieved stunning results. With precise journalistic detail, intimate access and masterly storytelling, Barry Siegel will change your understanding of American jurisprudence, police procedure, and what constitutes justice in our country today.
Out of Bounds
Title | Out of Bounds PDF eBook |
Author | Beverley Naidoo |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 133 |
Release | 2001-06-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0141928255 |
A collection of short stories - four previously published and three new - linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal dilemmas. All are set in South Africa, first under apartheid and then after the first democratic elections. They cover the period from 1950 to 2000 and reflect the lives of a range of young people, black and white, living in what was for many years seen as the world's most openly racist society.
The Black Poets
Title | The Black Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Dudley Randall |
Publisher | Bantam |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1985-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0553275631 |
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall
Prison From The Inside Out: One Man's Journey From A Life Sentence to Freedom
Title | Prison From The Inside Out: One Man's Journey From A Life Sentence to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | William Mecca Elmore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 2021-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780961444488 |
Prison From The Inside Out is both a book and an act of trust: A black man from New Jersey and a white woman decide they have something to tell the world about incarceration, self-esteem, personal growth, survival, and the power of trust.