#SummerReading: “Closed Ranks”

Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery is available in both paperback and Kindle edition. From the publisher’s website: On a chilly December afternoon in 1975, Bernard Whitehurst Jr., a 33-year-old father of four, was mistaken for a robbery suspect by Montgomery, Alabama, police officers. A brief foot chase ensued, and it ended with one of the pursuing officers shooting and killing Whitehurst in the backyard of an abandoned house. The officer claimed the fleeing man had fired at him; police produced a gun they said had been found near the… Read more #SummerReading: “Closed Ranks” →