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001			on1049577176
003			OCoLC
005			20181029020111.0
008			180801s2018 nyua e b 000 0beng
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019			_a1052796650 _a1055161566
020			_a9781620973271 _q(hardcover ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a1620973278 _q(hardcover ; _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)1049577176 _z(OCoLC)1052796650 _z(OCoLC)1055161566
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-nc
092			_aPlatt, B. _bK29
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aKelley, Pamela Sue, _d1959- _eauthor. _9375077
245	1	0	_aMoney rock : _ba family's story of cocaine, race, and ambition in the new South / _cPam Kelley.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew Press, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_axiii, 282 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pgs. 269-282).
505	0		_aMoney 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.
520			_aMeet 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 gives birth to Belton Lamont Platt, eventually known as Money Rock, in a newly integrated North Carolina hospital. Pam Kelley takes readers through a shootout that shocks the city, a botched FBI sting, and a trial with a judge known as "Maximum Bob." When the story concludes more than a half century later, Belton has redeemed himself. But three of his sons have met violent deaths and his oldest, fresh from prison, struggles to make a new life in a world where the odds are stacked against him. This gripping tale, populated with characters both big-hearted and flawed, shows how social forces and public policies--racism, segregation, the War on Drugs, mass incarceration--help shape individual destinies. Money Rock is a deeply American story, one that will leave readers reflecting on the near impossibility of making lasting change, in our lives and as a society, until we reckon with the sins of our past.
600	1	0	_aPlatt, Belton Lamont. _9375078
650		0	_aDrug dealers _zNorth Carolina _vBiography. _9375079
650		0	_aCriminals _zNorth Carolina _vBiography. _9375080
650		0	_aDiscrimination in criminal justice administration _zNorth Carolina. _9375081
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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