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008			211117s2022 nyua b 000 0 eng
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020			_a9780525657231
020			_a0525657231
020			_a9781984898364
035			_a.b53336471
035			_a(OCoLC)1268205459
037			_aBRO-copy20220801-060
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050	0	0	_aHV6534.L45 _bL69 2022
082	0	0	_a364.152 _223
100	1		_aLowry, Beverly, _eauthor. _919988
245	1	0	_aDeer Creek Drive : _ba Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta / _cBeverly Lowry.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2022.
300			_a353 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 347-354).
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aThompson, Idella, _d1879-1948. _919989
600	1	0	_aDickins, Ruth Thompson, _d1906-1996. _919990
650		0	_aMurder _zMississippi _zLeland _vCase studies. _919991
651		0	_aLeland (Miss.) _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _919992
651		0	_aLeland (Miss.) _xRace relations. _919993
655		7	_aTrue crime stories. _2lcgft _98501
907			_a.b175729840
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c30664 _d30664