He Calls Me by Lightning: The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty

by S. Jonathan Bass

Book Overview

Caliph Washington didn't pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South.

As He Calls Me by Lightning painstakingly chronicles, Washington, then a seventeen-year-old simply returning home after a double date, was swiftly arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to death by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631492373
• ISBN13: 9781631492372
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"