Summary: Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC THIWright, Lawrence
Summary: "With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny. God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 TEXChoates, Harry
Contents: Allons à Lafayette -- Basile waltz -- Cajun hop -- Port Arthur waltz -- Harry Choates special -- It won't be long -- Wrong keyhole -- Draggin' the bow -- Te petite -- Rubber dolly -- Louisiana -- Poor hobo -- Devil in the bayou -- Rye whiskey -- Fais do do stomp -- Lawtell waltz -- Bayou pon pon -- Chère meon -- Harry Choates blues -- Mari jole blon -- Honky tonking days -- Grand mamou -- Je...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arhoolie 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN CHOShaver, Billy Joe.
Contents: Freedom's child -- Good ol' USA -- That's why the man in black sings the blues -- Honey chile -- We -- Wild cow gravy -- Corsicana daily sun -- Day by day -- That's what she said last night -- Drinkin' back -- Deja blues -- (with Todd Snider) -- Hold on to yours (and I'll hold on to mine) -- Melody -- Magnolia mother's love -- Merry Christmas to you -- (hidden bonus track) -- Necessary Evil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Compadre Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY SHACahill, Thomas.
Summary: Relates the life of an African American inmate, sentenced to death for taking part in a robbery in which a victim was killed, and for whom opponents of the death penalty spent twelve years unsuccessfuly trying to have the case reviewed and his sentence overturned.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREEN, DOMINIQUE CAHJohnson, Kim
Summary: Every week Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time: her dad has only 267 days left. Then the police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a thug on the run, accused of killing a white girl. As...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction JohnsonStoner, Tammy Lynne
Summary: It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOJiménez, Flaco.
Contents: En el cielo no hay cerveza -- Tan solo -- De donde has sacado -- Ojitos negros -- Cuando te quiero, te vas -- Prenda del Alma -- La rosa negra -- Soy romantico -- Tumba sin flores -- Un viejo amor -- La tormenta.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Compadre Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN JIMSummary: The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which for the first time it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man. This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PHASir Douglas Quintet
Contents: Disc one. She's about a mover -- The rains came -- T-bone shuffle -- Oh what a mistake -- The tracker -- Nuevo Laredo -- Image of me -- It was in the pines -- Ain't nothin' wrong with you baby -- When I sing the blues -- In the jail house now -- It's a man down there -- We'll take our last walk tonight -- Wolverton mountain -- Medley: son of Bill Baety -- In time -- Please just say so -- She...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crimson Productions 1998