Murder Is the Charge The True Story of Mayor Charlie Robertson and the York, Pennsylvania, Race Riots

Those who were in York, Pennsylvania, during the July 1969 race riots described the period as "eleven days of hell." Violence erupted, escalating quickly from throwing rocks to shooting guns. In the midst of this terror, an African American woman, Lillie Belle Allen, a 27-year-old preacher's daughter, was fatally wounded as she entered a white neighborhood. Criminal charges for her death would not be brought until 32 years later. More shockingly, these charges would be brought against an innocent man-Charlie Robertson, the popular mayor of York. In Murder Is the Charge, William C. Costopoulos, Robertson's lawyer, gives an honest, candid, and complete telling of this dramatic trial: the lies, the public's need for vengeance, and Charlie Robertson's true crime.Costopoulos, William C. is the author of 'Murder Is the Charge The True Story of Mayor Charlie Robertson and the York, Pennsylvania, Race Riots', published 2004 under ISBN 9780940159884 and ISBN 0940159880.