Details
The Savage City
Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge|
10,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 07.04.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781845969974 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 528 |
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Beschreibungen
It was a time of hope and desperation, a time of reckoning . . .In the early 1960s, the Mad Men era, a mood of menace gripped New York City. The crime rate was growing and violence was becoming a daily reality for citizens in every neighbourhood. At the centre of the unrest was a poisonous divide between two camps: the deeply corrupt and racist police of the era and the African American community.Then, on 28 August 1963 - the day on which Martin Luther King Jr stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and declared, 'I have a dream' - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The killings struck fear through the city and ignited a ten-year saga of racial violence and unrest.An epic true-life story of murder, injustice and defiance, The Savage City draws on interviews with participants and extensive research to tell the stories of three very different New Yorkers - an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop and a militant Black Panther - and to explore this traumatic decade in the city's history.
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