Jack Shuler: 2 books
Blood and Bone
Truth and Reconciliation in a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg. Three young black men—Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith—were killed,...
The Thirteenth Turn
A History of the Noose
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America.
The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's past-and present.
The...