The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
by
Robert Sam Anson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
A complex, poignant exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry. Perry, a seventeen-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was fatally shot by a young white plainclothes policeman in 1985 in an alleged mugging attempt. Perry had recently graduated from...