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Real Justice: Jailed for Life for Being Black: The Story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
By SWAN, Bill
- ISBN
- 9781459406667 9781459406650
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Co.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Middle to High School
Gr 8 Up—This latest in this series relates the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a professional boxer wrongfully convicted of a triple homicide in 1967, whose story was told in the 1975 Bob Dylan song "The Hurricane" and the 1999 film of the same name. Swan engages readers from the first chapter with an account of the murders and Carter's arrest, then goes back to tell the story of Carter's earlier life, including a lengthy descripti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
