05695cam a2201201 4500 547459434 TxAuBib 20220131120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781647003876 1647003873 B08WJ6S6L3 Amazon dff51601-26ed-494f-bd85-4fd435c647f4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6080840 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Joyner, Chris. The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson [Libby] : A Battle for Racial Justice at the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era. ABRAMS, 2022. Racism and Discrimination. True Crime. bigotry. America. Reporters. convict. trial. lynching. Kent. Blast. 1955. Blanche. NAACP. Journalists. Blacks. Centennial. attorney. African-Americans . Criminal Justice System. behind the scenes. Grove. Civil Rights movement. narrative nonfiction. Law Enforcement. proceedings. bomber. injustice. bombing. Illinois. fiasco. documenting. conviction. reign of terror. well-researched. falsely accused. miscarriage of justice. Board of Education. fake news. reported. railroaded. sharecropper. 24 hour news. rest in peace. 2019. media frenzy. testified. true crime story. true crime nonfiction. pursuit of justice. innocent until proven. until proven guilty. murder true crime. racism and police. seven years old. lake county. inflicted. accused of planting. accused of rape. deserve what happened. events that occurred. fit the profile. fourteen year old. high school classes. husband and brother-in-law. innocent man's life. level of racism. man wrongly accused. never be forgotten. out to destroy. over sixty years. quality of research. regardless of skin. rush to judgment. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1387kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it's the story of Thurgood Marshall's NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party—despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help—intent on winning the hearts and minds of black voters. The bitter battle between the two groups played out as the sides sparred over who would take the lead on Henderson's defense, a period in which he spent years in prison away from a daughter he had never seen. Through it all, The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is a portrait of a community, and a country, at a crossroads, trying to choose between the path it knows is right and the path of least resistance. The case pitted powerful forces—often those steering legal and journalistic institutions—attempting to use racism and red-scare tactics against a populace that by and large believed the case against Henderson was suspect at best. But ultimately, it's a hopeful story about how even when things look dark, some small measure of justice can be achieved against all the odds, and actual progress is possible. It's the rare book that is a timely read, yet still manages to shed an informative light on America's past and future as well as it's present. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dff51601-26ed-494f-bd85-4fd435c647f4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dff51601-26ed-494f-bd85-4fd435c647f4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=dff51601-26ed-494f-bd85-4fd435c647f4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)