The Deer Creek Story
Author: Glen Russel Miller
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 168
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Author: Glen Russel Miller
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Beverly Lowry
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1984898361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. “Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.” —John Grisham 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 at least 150 times and left facedown 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 had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free. In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.
Author: Bill Travers
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Published: 1998
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Published: 196?
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Turner Wysong
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gulielma Fell Alsop
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Turner Wysong
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 78
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Published: 1880
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Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781293631959
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