He Calls Me By Lightning

He Calls Me By LightningCaliph Washington didnt pull the trigger but, as Officer James "Cowboy" Clark lay dying, he had no choice but to turn on his heel and run. The year was 1957; Cowboy Clark was white, Caliph Washington was black, and this was the Jim Crow South. As He Calls Me by Lightning painstakingly chronicles, Washington, then a seventeen year old simply returning home after a double date, was swiftly arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to death by an all white

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