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

by Sharon Davies

Book Overview

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic.

Sharon Davies's Rising Road resurrects the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379799
• ISBN13: 9780195379792
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"