Money rock : a family's story of cocaine, race, and ambition in the new South

Kelley, Pamela Sue, 1959- author.

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Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers, and that's what first prompted veteran reporter Pam Kelley to craft this riveting social history--by turns action-packed, uplifting, and tragic--of a striving African American family, swept up and transformed by the 1980s cocaine epidemic. The saga begins in 1963 when a budding civil rights activist named Carrie...

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ISBN:

9781620973271

Description:

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Family's story of cocaine, race, and ambition in the new South

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Money rock and big Lou
Showdown at Piedmont courts
Carrie Platt and the American dream
Candy kingpin
The dealer's mother
What went wrong with Piedmont courts?
State of North Carolina versus money rock
Convictions
Heavy in the weight
Going down
United States versus money rock
Coming of age in a world-class city
The Christian inmate
Sentencing a generation
Lost boys
The love of his life
Freedom
Trying to make a change
Susan and Mashandia
Homecoming
Life on the outside
Uprising
Southside homes
Epilogue
Where they are now
Acknowledgments
Notes

LCCN:

2018020705

Control Number:

2611072

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