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For The Color of His Skin: The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the Trial of Bensonhurst - Softcover

DeSantis, John

 
9781493534852: For The Color of His Skin: The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the Trial of Bensonhurst
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1493534858 ISBN 13: 9781493534852
Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

REVISED EDITION! WATCH THE AWARD-WINNING HBO DOCUMENTARY "STORM OVER BROOKLYN" THEN READ THIS BOOK On Aug. 23 1989 a 16-year-old black youth and his two friends were pursued by a bat-wielding mob of 40 white youths. One of them had a gun and shot the teen, Yusuf Hawkins, through the heart. This did not occur in the deep south but the industrial north, in Brooklyn, NY. This book tells the story of the marches that followed on the streets and the drama that followed in the courtroom, and it provides lessons still valid today

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John DeSantis began his journalism career covering crime on the streets of New York for UPI and has since worked for newspapers on all three coasts. He has covered aspects of Hurricane Katrina for the New York Times and other publications, and continues writing about race relations and social justice issues. He is currently the senior staff writer at the Tri-Parish Times in Houma, La.

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Verlag
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1493534858
ISBN 13 
9781493534852
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
290
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