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Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry

by Robert Sam Anson · 1987

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An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17 year old black honors student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young white plain clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.

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Setting
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Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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