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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Guilty When Black: One Girl's Journey Down the Twisted Road of Injustice & The Atrocities of Female Incarceration

Guilty When Black: One Girl's Journey Down the Twisted Road of Injustice & The Atrocities of Female Incarceration

Mersch, Carol

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 1952320585
ISBN13: 9781952320583
Publisher: Providenceworks LLC
Published: Sep 7 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Guilty When Black is the poignant, gut-wrenching story of a young African American woman, Miashah Moses, who, through unrelenting media attention and a rush to judgment by the DA, was charged with second-degree murder in the fiery deaths of her two small nieces, Noni (4) and Nylah (18 months) when she fed them lunch and left for eight minutes to empty the trash. While she was gone, the faulty stove caught fire, a not uncommon occurrence in the low-income apartments, according the electrical contractors. The book's four-part story offers a rare glimpse into the unique challenges faced by minority and marginalized women in Oklahoma, a state with the highest rate of female incarceration in the nation. Miashah's plight is intertwined with vivid stories of five incarcerated women, the rise of one judge and fall of another, and the landmark exoneration of three black men wrongfully sentenced for crimes they did not commit. The non-fiction book is prefaced with a gripping account of the Tulsa 1921 Race Massacre, the largest slaughter of African Americans in U.S. history that left the city's affluent Greenwood district, known as the Black Wall Street, burned to the ground.

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