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To Defy the Monster (Hardcover)
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To Defy the Monster (Hardcover)
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July 8, 1932, 11 PM. East Austin, an African-American district in
Jim Crow Texas. Sixty-year-old Charles Johnson is driving home from
Bible study when a car full of young white men swerves in front of
him. A brief altercation ensues. Convinced that his life is
threatened, Johnson fires his pistol and drives away. Johnson's
shot kills the unarmed, eighteen-year-old son of Albert Allison, a
prominent cotton landlord, influential in politics, and an advocate
for racial justice. Although devastated, Allison personally thwarts
a lynch mob and then insists that Austin's courts treat Johnson
fairly. Nonetheless, Allison expects fairness to execute his son's
killer. Johnson himself expects to be lynched, either by the mob or
by the court. "To Defy the Monster" shows how the confluence of
unique cultural and historical factors determines Johnson's fate
and why Allison orders his family never to speak of the matter.
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