A Game Called Salisbury: the spinning of a southern tragedy

by Susan Barringer Wells

Book Overview

A trio of North Carolina tenant farmers, accused of ax -murdering a white family, faces the impossibility of presumption of innocence during a time when the white supremacist press, dominated by soon to be Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, demonizes all people of color and predetermines guilt.It's about the origins of widespread "fake news," but not the kind Trump criticizes, rather the kind he creates.On Friday, July 13, 1906, fourteen-year-old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1979310521
• ISBN13: 9781979310529
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"