CALLED A FINEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST “Compelling, informative and essential, Underneath a Callous Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a neighborhood, a state and a country.
A remarkable assessment of an oppression story all too familiar and still mainly overlooked, an interesting and important read.”– Bryan Stevenson, author of Simply Grace From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Devil in the Grove, the gripping real story of a town with a huge trick.
In December 1957, the better half of a Florida citrus baron is raped in her house while her partner is away. She declares a “husky Negro” did it, and the constable, the notorious racist Willis McCall, does not be reluctant to assemble a herd of suspects.
However within days, McCall turns his sights on Jesse Daniels, a mild, psychologically impaired white nineteen-year-old. Quickly Jesse is railroaded approximately the state healthcare facility for the crazy, and locked away without trial.
However crusading reporter Mabel Norris Reese can not stop worrying over the case and its confusing result. Who was securing whom, or what? She pursues the story for several years, ferreting out leads, striking dead ends, winning not likely allies.
Bit by bit, the offensive facts behind a conspiracy that surprised a neighborhood into silence start to surface area. Underneath a Callous Sun informs an effective, page-turning story rooted in the worries that rippled through the South as combination started to take hold, triggering a rise of virulent bigotry that savaged the susceptible, debased the effective, and roils our own times still.
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