On the Laps of Gods
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On the Laps of Gods by Robert Whitaker
They Shot Them Down Like Rabbits . . .September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black sharecroppers were meeting in a humble wooden church, forming a union and making plans to sue their white landowners. A car pulled up outside the church . . . What happened next has long been shrouded in controversy. In this heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant story of courage and will, journalist Robert Whitaker carefully documents-and exposes-one of the worst racial massacres in American history. On the Laps of Gods is the story of the 1919 Elaine massacre in Hoop Spur, Arkansas, during which white mobs and federal troops killed more than one hundred black men, women, and children; of the twelve black men subsequently condemned to die; of Scipio Africanus Jones, a former slave and tenacious black attorney; and of Moore v. Dempsey, the case Jones brought to the Supreme Court, which set the legal stage for the civil rights movement half a century later.
Whitaker, Robert: - Robert Whitaker is the author of Mad in America, The Mapmaker's Wife, and On the Laps of Gods, all of which won recognition as notable books of the year. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he cowrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307339829 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307339823 |
| Title | On the Laps of Gods |
| Author | Robert Whitaker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Year published | 2008-06-10 |
| Number of pages | 386 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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