The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
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In November 1910, in segregated seaside Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old Marie Smith is sexually assaulted and murdered. A Black handyman and former boxer, Tom Williams, is arrested on thin evidence while a white mob gathers at the jail ready to lynch him. Did he do it? Private detective Raymond C. Schindler, using controversial psychological methods, sets a trap for the real killer. Alongside the case, Alex Tresniowski follows Ida B. Wells, whose anti-lynching crusade helped birth the NAACP, which took Williams's defense as one of its earliest legal battles. History and true crime collide at the dawn of modern detection and the civil rights fight to keep a Black prisoner alive long enough for justice.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9781982114039
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