Front cover image for Rising road : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America

Rising road : a true tale of love, race, and religion in America

Recounts the murder of James Coyle, Catholic priest, in 1921 in Birmingham, Alabama, by a Methodist minister in broad daylight and in front of several witnesses. The reason? The priest had just presided over the marriage of the Methodist minister's daughter to a young Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic

Print Book, English, 2010
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010