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My Father and Atticus Finch by Joseph Madison Beck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Joseph Madison Beck

Current price: $29.95
My Father and Atticus Finch by Joseph Madison Beck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
My Father and Atticus Finch by Joseph Madison Beck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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My Father and Atticus Finch by Joseph Madison Beck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Joseph Madison Beck

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My Father and Atticus Finch is the true story of Foster Beck, the author’s late father, whose courageous defense of a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird. After repeatedly being told that his father’s case ?might have? inspired Ms. Lee, author Beck, now a lawyer himself, located the trial transcript and multiple newspaper articles and here reconstructs his father’s role in State of Alabama v. Charles White, Alias. On the day of the arrest, the local newspaper reported, under a page-one headline, that ?a wandering negro fortune teller giving the name Charles White? had ?volunteered a detailed confession of the attack? of a local white girl. However, Foster Beck concluded that the confession was coerced. The same article claimed that ?the negro accomplished his dastardly purpose,? but as in To Kill a Mockingbird, there was stunning and dramatic testimony at the trial to the contrary. The saga captivated the community with its dramatic testimonies and emotional outcome. This riveting memoir, steeped in time and place, seeks to understand how race relations, class, and the memory of southern defeat in the Civil War produced such a haunting distortion of justice and how it may figure into our literary imagination. | My Father and Atticus Finch by Joseph Madison Beck, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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