Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE
Army Justice
CHAPTER TWO
Austria
CHAPTER THREE
The Castle
CHAPTER FOUR
Seven Base
CHAPTER FIVE
White Death Row
CHAPTER SIX
Eisenhower
CHAPTER SEVEN
Black Death Row
CHAPTER EIGHT
A Great Trouble
CHAPTER NINE
Kennedy
CHAPTER TEN
Midnight
Postscript
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
References
Index
Richard A. Serrano is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He spent 45 years covering the Pentagon, the wars in Haiti and the middle East, the US Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Terror. He is the author of four other books- One of Ours- Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma Bombing; Last of the Blue and Gray- Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War; American Endurance- Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West; and My Grandfather's Prison- A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City. Serrano lives in Fairfax, VA.
“Serrano paces his slim account for maximum suspense, but Bennett’s
execution feels increasingly foreordained, particularly when the
putatively liberal John F. Kennedy declines to second-guess his
predecessor. The author’s scrupulous research ably captures a
shameful time during the military’s halting journey toward
integration. A compact, engrossing historical meditation with clear
relevance to current controversies over race and punishment.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“An important contribution to the historiography of race and
justice.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Serrano presents a harrowing and necessary corrective
chronicle.”
—Booklist
“Summoned at Midnight, tells the important but overlooked story of
the role of race in the fates of former soldiers sentenced to death
by the military. It’s a book that manages to be both dark and
enlightening.”
—The Progressive
“Richard A. Serrano brings to life a shamefully overlooked episode
in American history. In the shadow of upheavals in Montgomery,
Scottsboro, and Little Rock, the US Army quietly maintained its own
lethal regime of white supremacy. It is a chilling portrait of the
federal government in the early years of the civil rights movement.
Meticulously researched and humanely written, Summoned at Midnight
masterfully unravels a forgotten history of racial injustice during
the twilight of Jim Crow.”
—Daniel LaChance, author of Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of
Capital Punishment in the United States
“Summoned at Midnight brilliantly brings to life a tragic and
forgotten chapter of American history, when the US Army was still
plagued by Jim Crow even on the cusp of the civil rights movement.
It is a heartbreaking reminder that progress is often halting and
that iconic historic figures were sometimes guilty of moral
cowardice.”
—James Risen, author of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless
War
“Summoned at Midnight uncovers one of the darkest chapters in
American history. It is a must-read for those seeking to understand
the historical failures of the criminal justice system and how
black soldiers fared within it. This gripping and devastating story
about racism, inequality, and capital punishment by the US military
is one I never knew and will never forget.”
—Talitha LeFlouria, author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and
Convict Labor in the New South
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