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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Algiers Motel Incident (1968)di John Hersey
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a piece of investigative journalism. Mr. Hersey has told the story of a police riot, which was a subset of the Detroit riots of 1967. It is a very illuminating study of the genesis of the "Black Lives Matter" Movement of today. those people have a very good reason for organizing in that fashion. It is not so recent but still (2017) very readable. ( ) The Algiers Motel Incident took place during the Detroit race riots in July of 1967. After several days of trying unsuccessfully to contain the riots, the Detroit police, state police, and National Guard were obviously stressed out, overworked, tired, and on edge. When police were called to the Algiers Motel due to the possibility of snipers there, things got out of hand. A dozen young black men and two white women who were in the motel at the time (none of whom were snipers) were brutally beaten by the police and three of the men were killed. In this book Hersey attempts to sort through all of the lies that were told by people on both sides following the incident. He presents as many of the facts as he was able to uncover and points out which stories may or may not be true. I picked up this book at a used book sale because I recognized the author, but since it had no dust jacket, I had no idea what it was about or even that it was nonfiction. Even though it ended up being something completely different than I expected, I found it to be an interesting read. Hersey tells us in the beginning that no one really knows what happened that night because the witnesses are so unreliable. The purpose of the book was to list all of the facts in order to bring attention to an incident that never should have happened, not to solve the mystery. I think the book did a good job of doing that. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"In July 1967, on the third night of a race riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel, a black-owned business located about a mile from the epicenter of the unrest. The police responded to a report of sniper fire from the motel and proceeded to round up its occupants. They beat them and threatened to kill them. Three black men were killed that night, and no one was convicted for their deaths. First published in 1968, John Hersey's book strings together interviews, police reports, court testimony, and news reports to give an account of the events and their aftermath."--Provided by publisher. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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