He Calls Me By Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice,...

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S Jonathan Bass

He Calls Me By Lightning

The Life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the...

S Jonathan Bass

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Liveright Publishing Corporation
07 September 2018

History

"Caliph Washington didn't pull the trigger but, as Officer James ""Cowboy"" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South.

Widely lauded for its searing ""insight into a history of America that can no longer be left unknown"" (Washington Post), He Calls Me by Lightning is an ""absorbing chronicle"" (Ira Katznelson) of the forgotten life of Caliph Washington that becomes an historic portrait of racial injustice in the civil rights era. Washington, a black teenager from the vice-ridden city of Bessemer, Alabama, was wrongfully convicted of killing a white Alabama policeman in 1957 and sentenced to death. Through ""meticulous research and vivid prose"" (Patrick Phillips), S. Jonathan Bass reveals Washington's Kafkaesque legal odyssey: he came within minutes of the electric chair nearly a dozen times and had his conviction overturned three times before finally being released in 1972. Devastating and essential, He Calls Me by Lightning demands that we take into account the thousands of lives cast away by the systemic racism of a ""social order apparently unchanged even today"" (David Levering Lewis)."

By: S Jonathan Bass
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9781631494529
ISBN 10: 163149452X
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 07 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

S. Jonathan Bass is a professor at Alabama’s Samford University and the author of Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.