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The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race

by Bernard Headley

Pages: 241

Contributors: Bernard Headley

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Place of Publication: Carbondale, IL

Publication Year: 1998

Subjects: Williams, Wayne Bertram,Serial Murders--Georgia--Atlanta,African American Youth--Crimes Against--Georgia--Atlanta,Murder--Investigation--Georgia--Atlanta,Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Atlanta,Racism--Georgia--Atlanta,Atlanta (Ga.)--Race Relations

Table of Contents

Title Page

The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race

Prologue

1: A City Too Busy to Hate?

2: Two Deaths Against the Backdrop of Racial Troubles

3: Where Have All the Children Gone?

4: A Summer of Death

5: The Pain of Finding Nothing at All

6: Select Outsiders Only

7: "We'Ve Got to End This"

8: Multiple Suspects

9: The Politics of Federal Aid

10: A Dead Body Every Week

11: A Loud Splash

12: A Man with Big Dreams and Peculiar Activities

13: Pursuit and an Fbi "Interview"

14: The Media Blitzkrieg and Developing Evidence

15: The D. A. Makes a Highly Political Arrest

16: Pretrial Activity

17: The Trial No One Wanted to Miss

Epilogue

Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

Appendix B

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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