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Guest C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D

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Guest C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D

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Cover image, author information, publication date, and book description on am*zon via above link.

 

This is an intriguing account of three murders in the Jim Crow Segregationist South between the 1930s and the 1950s. All murders were connected with the illegal gambling game of bolita.

 

The book covers a period on the Jim Crow south from the 1930s to the 1950s when African Americans were unable to call the police if attacked, and could  not seek justice in the legal system.

 

Readers will be fascinated to find that today’s police force originated with slave patrols, formed to return “property” to the plantation owners.

 

Knowing our history helps us to understand our present.

 

C. Arthur Ellis, Jr. is also the author of Zora Hurston and the Strange Case of Ruby McCollum, and appeared in a documentary on the case aired on the Discovery Channel, A Crime to Remember.

 

EMAIL: andydog1000@gmail.com

 

 

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