Incident at Ashton - Milner, Jay
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Republished with a foreword by John Tisdale,director of TCU’s School of Journalism, thelate Jay Milner’s novel is a riveting portrayal of ascenario that unhappily mirrored real-life incidentsthroughout the South in the mid-twentieth century. In Ashton, a fictional town in the deep South, anelderly black man walked into the courthouseone day and made a simple request. He wantedto register to vote. At first the clerk was confused.Never before in the town’s history had a Negrodisplayed such arrogance. He tried to discouragehim, but the old man was adamant. A few dayslater they pulled his body…mehr

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Republished with a foreword by John Tisdale,director of TCU’s School of Journalism, thelate Jay Milner’s novel is a riveting portrayal of ascenario that unhappily mirrored real-life incidentsthroughout the South in the mid-twentieth century. In Ashton, a fictional town in the deep South, anelderly black man walked into the courthouseone day and made a simple request. He wantedto register to vote. At first the clerk was confused.Never before in the town’s history had a Negrodisplayed such arrogance. He tried to discouragehim, but the old man was adamant. A few dayslater they pulled his body from the river, a gapingwound in his head. Only a few years earlier, thisincident would have gone practically unnoticed inAshton. But that time was past. Phil Arrow, a youngnewspaperman, demanded a full measure of justicefrom the people of his town.
Autorenporträt
Born in Colorado Springs and raised in Lubbock, Texas,author Jay Milner obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Mississippi Southern College, USA. He began hisnewspaper career in 1952, working on papers in the South, including a two-year stint with Hodding Carter’s Delta Democrat-Times. He covered gubernatorial and senatorial races, and reported on many of the major racial incidents that occurred in the South in the twentieth century.