Deer Creek Drive : a reckoning of memory and murder in the Mississippi Delta
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022].
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9780525657231, 0525657231
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364.152309 LOWRY
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022].
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Book
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353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780525657231, 0525657231

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"In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the scene, but no evidence was uncovered. When Dickins was convicted and sentenced to a life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions were drafted, signed, and circulated, pleading for her release, and after only five years, she was indeed set free. The governor granted Ruth Dickens an indefinite suspension. Beverly Lowry-who was ten at the time of the murder-continued to investigate what happened decades ago on the most prestigious street in Leland, Mississippi, and she reflects on what her working class childhood in the south means today. With brilliant reporting and irresistible prose, Deer Creek Drive tells the story of that unspeakable murder within the wider context of race and class, and sheds light on what it was like to grow up white in the Mississippi Delta during the last years of school segregation"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lowry, B. (2022). Deer Creek Drive: a reckoning of memory and murder in the Mississippi Delta (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lowry, Beverly. 2022. Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta. Alfred A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lowry, Beverly. Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Lowry, Beverly. Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

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