TY - BOOK ID - 77878655 TI - Rising road PY - 2010 SN - 1282465821 9786612465826 0199701903 9780199701902 9780195379792 0195379799 0199752494 PB - Oxford New York DB - UniCat KW - Interracial marriage KW - Anti-Catholicism KW - Murder KW - Criminal homicide KW - Killing (Murder) KW - Homicide KW - Antipapism KW - Prejudices KW - Intermarriage KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77878655 AB - It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth--who had secretly converted to Catholicism three months earlier--to Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic. Having all but disappeared from historical memory, the murder of Father Coyle and the trial of Rev. Stephenson that followed are vi ER -