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Going to Hell to Get the Devil : The 1972 Charlotte Three Case and the Freedom Struggle in a Sunbelt City
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Details
- Creator
- J. Christopher Schutz and David Goldfield
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
- ©2024
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xx, 283 pages)
- ISBNs
- 0807181757, 9780807181751, 080718215X, 9780807182154, 9780807182147, 0807182141
- OCLC
- on1423133182
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Business leadership and desegregation in 1960s Charlotte, North Carolina -- "Outside agitators" and the struggle for power in Charlotte -- Let justice roll down like waters: from a war on poverty to a war on crime -- Blood revolution in a tobacco town: racial turmoil in Oxford, North Carolina -- Strange bedfellows: Al Hood, Dave Washington, and the war on crime -- Convicting the wizard, the poet, and Little Charlie: the Charlotte Three trial -- The North Carolina Political Prisoners Committee and its drive for justice -- "Telling the truth" -- And then there were none
Subjects
- Grant, James Earl -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Parker, Charles, 1948- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Reddy, T. J., 1945- -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- North Carolina Political Prisoners Committee.
- Civil rights movements -- North Carolina -- Charlotte.
- Charlotte (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.