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A carregar... The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACPpor Alex Tresniowski
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 2021, coronavirus, nonfiction, race, racism, history, crime ( ) In 1910 Asbury Park, New Jersey, 10 year old Marie Smith is sexually assaulted and murdered. Immediately a local Black handyman, Tom Williams, is accused and arrested. While the racist district attorney wants to try him immediately, a private detective,Ray Schindler, is hired to investigate. After interviewing Tom he has doubts of his guilt and eventually zeroes in on a German immigrant, Frank Heidemann, The title refers to Schindler's method of using operatives to get so close to Heidemann that he confesses his guilt to them. It took many months and elaborate schemes to get the rope to work on Heidemann. The other part of this volume is the role of Black activist Ida B. Wells in fighting the lynching of Black men. It was she who first attacked the myth that Black men were lynched because they raped white women when it was really a method used by whites to control black residents in the deep south through fear. Using white sources only, Wells documented 4000 lynchings between 1877 and 1950 in the United States. I really love the way the author takes one specific case, and uses this case as the starting and ending point for a history of the NAACP, Ida B. Wells, Lynching & the emergence of the private detective. The narrative begins with the murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, and the railroading of an innocent black man for this heinous crime. It then interweaves complex and enraging historical narratives and facts into the timeline of the case. As it progresses another suspect emerges and the reader begins to wonder if justice will be done, or if prejudice will get in the way. Thank you to Netgally and Simon & Shuster for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time. Occurring exactly halfway between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the formal beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, the brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces-religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America's Jim Crow racial violence. History and true crime collide in this sensational murder mystery featuring characters as complex and colorful as those found in the best psychological thrillers-the unconventional truth-seeking detective Ray Schindler; the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann; the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick; the mysterious "sting artist," Carl Neumeister; the indomitable crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith, who represented all the innocent and vulnerable children living in turn-of-the-century America. Gripping and powerful, The Rope is an important piece of history that gives a voice to the voiceless and resurrects a long-forgotten true crime story that speaks to the very divisions tearing at the nation's fabric today"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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