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9781476709512

Carry Me Home Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

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    9781476709512

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    1476709513

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-01-15
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Summary

Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America's second emancipation. In a new afterwordreporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabamathe author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.

Author Biography

Diane McWhorter is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and the op-ed page of USA TODAY, among other national publications. Her young adult history of the civil rights movement is A Dream of Freedom. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Introduction: September 15, 1963

Part I: Precedents, 1938-1959

  1. The City of Perpetual Promise: 1938
  2. Ring Out the Old: 1948
  3. Mass Movements: 1954-1956
  4. Rehearsal: 1956-1959


Part II: Movement, 1960-1962


  1. Breaking Out
  2. Action
  3. Freedom Ride
  4. Pivot
  5. The Full Cast
  6. Progress


Part III: The Year of Birmingham, 1963


  1. New Day Dawns
  2. Mad Dogs and Responsible Negroes
  3. Baptism
  4. Two Mayors and a King
  5. D-Day
  6. Miracle
  7. Mayday
  8. The Threshold
  9. Edge of Heaven
  10. No More Water
  11. The Schoolhouse Door
  12. The End of Segregation
  13. The Beginning of Integration
  14. All the Governor's Men
  15. A Case of Dynamite
  16. The Eve
  17. Denise, Carole, Cynthia, and Addie
  18. Aftershocks
  19. BAPBOMB
  20. General Lee's Namesakes


Epilogue

Abbreviations Used in Source Notes

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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