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A Gathering of Old Menby Gaines, Ernest J
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DescriptionAlfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 0394514688 some staining to tops of pages, ex lib, good dj . Fair. Book summaryA story of racism, violence, and self-realization set in backwoods Louisiana under the Jim Crow era. The action is set in motion when a white farmer is murdered by a black, in circumstances reminiscent of the notorious Emmet Till case of the 1950s. Rather than allow the defendant to be summarily executed--or lynched--fifteen elderly black men go to the local sheriff and each confess to the crime, thereby making prosecution of the case virtually impossible. |
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