Description:
A Man Visited by History traces the life of Judge James E. Horton Jr., the Alabama judge who boldly overturned the jury's unjust verdict against Scottsboro defendant Haywood Patterson. Drawing on previously unused sources, Steven P. Brown reveals Horton's lifelong commitment to the principle of justice and the personal cost of his courageous decision.
Review Quotes:
"A Man Visited by History is well executed and reconsiders a familiar story without simply retelling it." --R. Volney Riser, author of Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890-1908