TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubinstein,Julian
TI  - The Holly: five bullets, one gun, and the struggle to save an American neighborhood 
SN  - 9780374168919
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Gangs
KW  - Colorado
KW  - Denver
KW  - Gang prevention
KW  - Violent crimes
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Community development
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-378)
N2  - "A history of the Denver neighborhood known as the Holly and the controversial anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts"--; On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an "invisible city" within a historically white metropolis. The shooter, Terrance Roberts, was a revered anti-gang activist. Rubinstein reconstructs the events that left a local gang member paralyzed and Roberts facing the possibility of life in prison. The result is a multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, exploring the porous boundaries between a city's elites and its most disadvantaged citizens. -- adapted from jacket
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