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Book

The Algiers Motel incident

Call Number

  • 977.434 H5722J (CEN)

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Edition

Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition.

Publication Information

Baltimore ; London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Physical Description

xx, 397 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

Thirty years ago, three black men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it , an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen, and private guards who had been directed to the scene." Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the police group invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten black men and two white women, none of whom were armed, for an hour. By the time the interrogators left, three men had been shot to death and the others, including the women, beaten.

Notes

Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1968. With new introduction.

Contents

  • Introduction: John Hersey and the tragedy of race / Thomas J. Sugrue
  • The odor of a case: July 26-31
  • Three cops and three days: July 23-5
  • Auburey and his circle
  • Confession: July 31
  • The Algiers Motel incident: July 25-6
  • Aftermath: July 31 and after.

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