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"Hurricane recounts the harrowing, inspiring odyssey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer wrongly convicted of three murders, from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
"On June 17, 1966, two black men strode into the Lafayette Grill, a white redoubt in racially mixed Paterson, New Jersey, and shot three people to death. Rubin Carter and his young acquaintance John Artis were not those men, but they were convicted of the murders in a highly publicized and racially charged trial."--BOOK JACKET.
"Over the next decade, Carter amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of numerous celebrities (Bob Dylan's song "Hurricane" was but one example). He was freed pending a new trial, only to lose his appeal - to the astonishment of many - and land back in prison. He avoided almost all human contact, until he received a letter from Lesra Martin, a teenager raised in a Brooklyn ghetto."--BOOK JACKET.
"Against his bitter instincts, Carter agreed to meet with Martin, thus taking the first step on a long, tortuous path back into the world. Martin introduced Carter to an enigmatic group of Canadians, including a strong-willed woman with whom he later began an intense unlikely romance. In the process, the Canadians helped wage an international battle to free him."--BOOK JACKET.
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Judicial error, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, False imprisonment, Crime, Case studies, Capital punishment, African American boxers, Biography, African American prisoners, Large type books, Crime, united statesPeople
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Hurricane: the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter
2000, Thorndike Press
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Hurricane: the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter
2000, Houghton Mifflin
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 713-716).
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