Description: Summer 1955. The murder of a young Black teenager becomes a pivotal moment in American history.
Brief description: Born in Rennes in 1982, Jean-Marie Pottier is an independent journalist, after working as an economic journalist for the magazine Challenges, then as editor-in-chief of Slate.fr. Currently, he works for Sciences humaines, Arte, L' Express, Retronews, and Society, for which he has written several stories and reports on American politics and society. Passionate about music, he writes regularly for the pop magazine Magic. He is also the author of several essays published with Editions Le mot et le reste, including Ground Zero: A musical history of September 11 (2016) and Alternative Nation: The Independent American Scene, 1979-2001 (2021).
Review Quotes: Highly recommended for anybody who wants to find out more about a particularly evil act of violence and how large segments of society banded together to fight injustice. It's an often shocking and upsetting narrative, but a very important and well-told one, explaining the consequences when a jury's verdict is itself a crime.-- "Crimespree Magazine"