Deer Creek Drive : a Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta / Beverly Lowry.
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TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525657231; 0525657231; 9781984898364Subject(s): Thompson, Idella, 1879-1948 | Dickins, Ruth Thompson, 1906-1996 | Murder -- Mississippi -- Leland -- Case studies | Leland (Miss.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Leland (Miss.) -- Race relationsGenre/Form: True crime stories. DDC classification: 364.152 LOC classification: HV6534.L45 | L69 2022Summary: "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 some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down 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 fled the scene, but no evidence was uncovered. When Dickins was convicted and sentenced to a life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions were drafted, signed, and circulated, pleading for her release, and after only five years, she was indeed set free. The governor granted Ruth Dickens an indefinite suspension. Beverly Lowry-who was ten at the time of the murder-continued to investigate what happened decades ago on the most prestigious street in Leland, Mississippi, and she reflects on what her working class childhood in the south means today. With brilliant reporting and irresistible prose, Deer Creek Drive tells the story of that unspeakable murder within the wider context of race and class, and sheds light on what it was like to grow up white in the Mississippi Delta during the last years of school segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
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| 364.152 GRAE The good nurse : | 364.152 KRAY Amish grace : | 364.152 LEAK Entering Hades : | 364.152 LOWR Deer Creek Drive : a Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta / | 364.152 McEL Gosnell : | 364.152 MICH The devil’s right-hand man : | 364.152 OLSE The Amish wife : unraveling the lies, secrets, and conspiracy that let a killer go free / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354).
"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 some hundred and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-down 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 fled the scene, but no evidence was uncovered. When Dickins was convicted and sentenced to a life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions were drafted, signed, and circulated, pleading for her release, and after only five years, she was indeed set free. The governor granted Ruth Dickens an indefinite suspension. Beverly Lowry-who was ten at the time of the murder-continued to investigate what happened decades ago on the most prestigious street in Leland, Mississippi, and she reflects on what her working class childhood in the south means today. With brilliant reporting and irresistible prose, Deer Creek Drive tells the story of that unspeakable murder within the wider context of race and class, and sheds light on what it was like to grow up white in the Mississippi Delta during the last years of school segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
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