Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

By T.R. Lilly

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379799
• ISBN13: 9780195379792
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"