The Atlanta Youth Murders and the Politics of Race.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Author: Ferrall, Bard R.
• Date: 22 June 1999

BERNARD HEADLEY, THE ATLANTA YOUTH MURDERS AND THE POLITICS OF RACE (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998) 241 pp.

Between the summer of 1979 and the spring of 1981, twenty-eight black males and two African American females disappeared in Atlanta. Most of these victims were poor teenagers. Many of their bodies were later found in various parts of the city and environs. The cause of death in each case was either strangulation or multiple stab wounds (none seemed to have...