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This is a reverse whodunit: we know who committed the crime but not—though we can guess—whether he'll be convicted. Since it takes place in 1921 Birmingham, Ala., the story's likely to involve race, gender relations, family authority, and religion, and not to be pretty. Davies, a professor of law at Ohio State, knows her way through the thickets of criminal proceedings and the ways of adversarial attorneys. She also mines trial transcripts for all they're worth. One of the defense lawyers is none other than Hugo Black, later a Supreme Court Justice but here a supporter of the Klan, which he would soon join. When all is over, the murderer, a white Protestant, goes free after killing a Catholic priest and expressing, like most in the courtroom, just about every vulgar prejudice of the day. Davies leaves almost no detail unmentioned, when a novelist's way of letting one fact stand in for many others would have made the story move more quickly. But this is an illustrative tale about its time, well worth the telling. 15 b& photos. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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"A wonderful reconstruction of an illuminating piece of American legal history. It should appeal not only to scholars of race, gender, and religion in the Jim Crow south but also to anyone who enjoys a dramatic legal yarn." --The Journal of Southern History"First-rate history. Detailed yet fast-paced, it lays bare the common, deep-rooted bigotry of a region and era that made the jury verdict predictable. Davies' fascinating book is an excellent work of narrative history. Rising Road deserves a wide audience."--Columbus Dispatch"An illustrative tale about its time, well worth the telling."--Publishers Weekly"Gripping...a fine work of history [with] notable economy, clarity, and quality research."--Jim Cullen, History News Network"In this exquisite book, Sharon Davies takes us deep into the dark heart of the Jim Crow South, where she uncovers a searing story of love, faith, bigotry and violence. Rising Road is a history so powerful, so compelling it stays with you long after you've finished its final page."--Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age"A deep knowledge of Southern and legal history, and of the dramatic give-and-take of criminal trials, allows this compelling human story of religion, race and murder to show how the barbarities of 1920s Alabama had played out in families, courts and politics."--David Roediger, Professor of History at University of Illinois and author of How Race Survived U.S. History "Sharon Davies skillfully traces how an open-and-shut case unraveled. That the outcome seemed foreordained did not inhibit Davies from writing a gripping trial history." - Christian Century "...capture[s] in rich detail the irrational and complex interplay among race, religion, and "otherness" in the post-World War I Jim Crow South."--The Journal of Southern Religion
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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (February 16, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195379799
ISBN-13: 978-0195379792
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9.4 x 1.4 x 6.4 inches
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Rising Road takes one of the first "trials of the century," the murder of a catholic priest in 1920's Birmingham, Alabama, and brings it vividly to life. Like the best works in this nonfiction genre, such as Arc of Justice or Seabiscuit, the author turns what must have been painstaking historical research into a page-turning narrative that places us in the United States of 100 years ago in fully realized detail. What is so wonderful about this book are the combination of a great story--love, race, religion, family conflict--with celebrity added in (future Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black has a prominent part) together with fascinating social history and, to top it off, an "inside look" at a criminal case from the expert perspective of a law professor and former prosecutor. I learned a great deal from this book while enjoying it like a novel. Although there are very few living souls who can remember the events recounted in Rising Road (and one suspects Davies must have tracked them down and interviewed them), very few readers of this book will ever forget them. I know I wont. Highly recommended.
This book may be one of the most important published this year.The murder of Fr. James Coyle, a Roman Catholic priest, at the hands of a Methodist minister and Klu Klux Klan member Rev. Edwin Stevenson made for one of the most sensational trials of the last century. The murder took place in 1921.Rev. Stevenson shot Fr. Coyle in cold blood because Coyle's daughter had converted to Catholicism and had married a dark skinned Puerto Rican in the Church. The murder was a pure act of hatred and malice.And Stevenson was acquitted of the crime. The judge, several members of the Jury, and the defense attorneys were all current (or future) members of the Klu Klux Clan.The Rev. Stevenson was represented by Hugo Black, when Black was a young attorney. Black was a Freemason, and later a member of the Klan. I must note that his eventual career as a Supreme Court Justice is filled with many many accomplishments. I have reviewed his decisions and find him absolutely prescient. I think his constant stand for civil rights is to be admired, as is his brave dissent on Griswold vs. Connecticut, which is a case that set the precedent for one of the worse cases in Court history.But this brave career in defense of the Constitution, civil rights, and school desegregation was decades in the future when he took the Rev. Stevenson as a client.His defense of Stevenson was very aggressive, and played to the prejudices of the jurors.Fr. James Coyle by contrast was a Knight of Columbus and a chaplain for his local Knights council. He was an ardent defender of the faith, and a very brave man. For a Catholic priest in Birmingham Alabama early in the last century, the dangers were many. But Coyle was from a line of freedom fighters in Ireland, and was not the type of person to hide from the likes of the Klu Klux Klan. Every evening he would sit on his rectory's front porch and do his work there in the open air. If those who wanted him dead wanted to, they always knew where to find him.I too am a Knight, and I find great solace in reading about this member of the order. There are many parallels between Fr. Coyle's self-sacrificial life of service, and the life of service of the founder of our Order, the Venerable Fr. Michael J, McGiveny. Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism It is nice to see good historians write excellent books about these men, especially today. There are many priests out there in the mold of Coyle and McGiveny, but it seems we never hear about them. Seeing books like this published is as heartening as it is appreciated.I know nothing of Professor Davies background. I know only what I know from the book, and her faculty page at her University.She is a criminal lawyer and an expert in criminal law. The majority of this book is written about the trial of Rev. Stevenson and, as person who is a professor in the area at one of our nations finest law schools, Professor Davies does not disappoint. Her recreation of the case is simply magnificent.This did not surprise me.What DID surprise me was how well she told the story of the Catholic Church in Birmingham, right down to the liturgy. I do not know if Davies is Catholic. As a very knowledgeable (and somewhat traditional) Catholic what I can say is that this woman took the time to get it RIGHT. I had the sense I was reading a book written by a fine Church historian before the story of the trial began, and the sense I was reading a book by fine trial lawyer when the story of the case began. That is a degree of cross-competence that is very rare, especially these days. A liberal education is in many places a dead thing, a relic of the past. Professor Davies possess one. That is very clear.This is an excellent book. Not only does it tell the story of a brave man and good and holy priest, it tells the story of a riveting murder case, and most importantly, paints a very good and authentic picture of American anti-Catholicism on the part of some evangelical Christians. This is a legacy that has not entirely gone away, as books such as A Woman Rides the Beast: The Roman Catholic Church and the Last Days and The Gospel According to Rome clearly show. The at times murderous legacy of such hatred and bigotry should serve as a warning to us all to keep God's love and mercy foremost in our minds and hearts when dealing with people different than ourselves.
Sharon Davies, who is a Law Professor at Ohio State University, wrote an excellent book about predjudice, bigotry, and stupidty. The book titled RISING ROAD is a thorough yet depressing book about ignorance and injustice in "the land of the free." To state that Sharon Davies "did her homework" is an understatement.The early 20th. century was a time of unreasonable hatred toward Catholicism and Catholics. Many state authorities had carte blanche unconstitutional power to make unannounced investigations of monastaries and convents in violation of Fourth Amendment Rights. Political candidates were elected based on virulent anti-Cathlocism. Wild stories were published about Catholic clergy conspiring with the Pope to store weapons and take control of the US Government. What is sad is that many Americans believed this nonsense without a shred of evidence.Davies did a good job explaining the economic and political conditions in Birmingham, Alabama. Sly land investors were aware of iron ore and coal deposits in the Birmingham area and knew that the booming US steel industry would make this area a lucrative site for land speculation and investments. The blacks saw the prospect of industrial jobs as an escape from agricultural work only to be disappointed at the long hours, low wages, and poor living quarters.In the midst of the economic and political environment, Catholics were marginalized. Father Coyle had serious disputes with klansmen and anti-Catholic bigots whom he successfully debated in newspaper articles. Father Coyle's Bishop was concerned with Father Coyle's safety, and, as events unfolded, this fear was well founded.With this background, Sharon Davies wrote a detailed account of the murder of Father Coyle by a Rev. Stephenson because Stephonson's daughter converted to Catholicism and married a Catholic man in spite of brutality and threats to her life as well as threatened placement in a primitative asylum. Even though Father Coyle talked to Ruth Stephenson when she was 12, there was no attempt to convert her. Six years later she was received into the Catholic Church for which Rev. Stephenson murdered Father Coyle who was not the priest who received her. Rev. Stephenson had an unsavory reputation among fellow Metholidist clergy because of his own caper of trolling the local courthouse to perform marriages.Readers must realize that when Rev. Stephenson murdered Father Coyle, torture was considered normal procedure in extracting confessions until 1936 when the US Supreme Court Justices correctly ruled that confessions extracted by torture were in violation of Eighth Amendment Rights and were unconstitional (MISSIPPI VS. BROWN). Rev. Stephenson was never subjected to such duress although black suspects were. The Jefferson County Coroner finally concluded in his inquest that the murder of Father Coyle was premeditated murder resulting in a grand jury hearing.Prior to the grand jury hearing, Sharon Davies gave a detailed account of conflict of between the prosecutor and Hugo Black who was the lead attorney of for Rev. Stephenson. Readers may know that later Hugo Black was confirmed as a US Supreme Court Justice. The lead prosecutor was Joe Tate whose politcal disputes with Hugo Black were well known in Jefferson County,Alabama. Such details gave the book an interesting background.Once the grand jury returned a true bill of indictment for second degree murder, the trial showed racism and bigotry as major factors. Ruth Stephenson's husband, Pedro Gussman was registered as white. He was not segregated as black. Yet, he may have been surprised that during the trial he became black because of his Hispanic ancestry and his place of birth in Puerto Rico. Hugo Black asked how Pedro Gussman knew his parents were Spaniards to which Gussman responded simply that his parents told him so.Hugo Black and his defense team tried to impugn Ruth Stephenon's testimony. They carefully avoided any references of her being beaten and mistreated because of her familiarity with Catholicism. When Hugo Black tried to make a case that Ruth Stephenson was coerced or lured into the Catholic Faith, she refuted such nonsense by claiming that she made the decision of her own accord without any prompting by Catholic priests. Hugo Black also used the self-defense arguement and temporary insanity defense. Davies made a good point that there were no powder burns on Father Coyle refuting any claim of a fight or self defense. Witness testimony confirmed there was no physical altercation between Rev. Stephenson and Father Coyle.The trial ended in an aquittal of Rev. Stephonson. Ruth and Pedro Gussman were divorced. Pedro was killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1931 who was never apprehended. Ruth died from tuberculoses. The events were an American tragedy. Sharon Davies deserves high praise for meticulous research, good written expression, and a good history. Her book is timely and reported an event in US History that has been ignored until she wrote this book.James E. EgolfAugust 30, 2011
I just finished reading this book. It is a history of the murder of Father Coyle at the parish rectory, and subsequent trial of the perpetrator in Birmingham, Alabama in 1921. It was one of those books you had trouble putting down, I would remain an extra hour at home to finish a few more chapters.It is a vignette of Birmingham's early history, Jim Crow, the Klan, and the forces that impacted the trial and citizens. Although this is a history book, it is easy reading.You do not have to be from Birmingham or Alabama to enjoy this book.Enjoy
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