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100 1  Lowry, Beverly,|eauthor. 
245 10 Deer Creek Drive :|ba reckoning of memory and murder in 
       the Mississippi Delta /|cBeverly Lowry. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2022. 
300    353 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages :|billustrations ;
       |c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354). 
520    "In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the 
       Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was 
       viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed some hundred 
       and fifty times with pruning shears, she was left face-
       down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, 
       was the only other person in the house. She told 
       authorities a Black man she didn't recognize fled the 
       scene, but no evidence was uncovered. When Dickins was 
       convicted and sentenced to a life in prison, the community
       exploded. Petitions were drafted, signed, and circulated, 
       pleading for her release, and after only five years, she 
       was indeed set free. The governor granted Ruth Dickens an 
       indefinite suspension. Beverly Lowry-who was ten at the 
       time of the murder-continued to investigate what happened 
       decades ago on the most prestigious street in Leland, 
       Mississippi, and she reflects on what her working class 
       childhood in the south means today. With brilliant 
       reporting and irresistible prose, Deer Creek Drive tells 
       the story of that unspeakable murder within the wider 
       context of race and class, and sheds light on what it was 
       like to grow up white in the Mississippi Delta during the 
       last years of school segregation"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Thompson, Idella,|d1879-1948. 
600 10 Dickins, Ruth Thompson,|d1906-1996. 
650  0 Murder|zMississippi|zLeland|vCase studies. 
651  0 Leland (Miss.)|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
651  0 Leland (Miss.)|xRace relations.