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Sowega - A Tale of Southern Justice (Hardcover)
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Sowega - A Tale of Southern Justice (Hardcover)
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"What separates men from each other is not measured by physical
distance; it is measured by the thoughts in their minds." The
Author In this fictional version of a 1968 civil rights murder
trial in Southwest Georgia, SOWEGA, Robert Lee "Jackpot" Jest, an
uneducated young black man, is defended by an equally young white
indigent defense lawyer. They come from entirely different worlds
in Georgia. Attorney Clay Garland accepts the pro bono case when no
other defense lawyer in Southwest Georgia would agree to defend
him. Jackpot is charged with the murder of the local sheriff's
grandson and is detained for over a year to avoid the real
possibility of a lynching, an act not unknown to the political and
racial heritage in Forrest County, Georgia. The pretrial events and
the trial itself take the reader down what appears to be an obvious
path to conclusion, only to be jolted in another direction. Clay
encounters a retired army sergeant with connections to civil rights
leaders in Atlanta, a voodoo Root Doctor, white supremacists, and
the mafia-all of whose actions affect the outcome of the trial, a
trial which gains national publicity and symbolizes as a microcosm
the various opposing political and legal forces of the 1960s civil
rights era in Georgia. Robert Lee Jest-a pawn on the chessboard of
hate, prejudice, and Southern politics-emerges as an inspiration to
Clay Garland. This is the story of how these two disparate young
men come together in a common cause and the judicial proceedings
that ultimately produced celebrity for one and Southern Justice for
the other.
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