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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Paperback - 2013
by Diane McWhorter
Summary
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights eraâÈçs 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 AmericaâÈçs 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 AmericaâÈçs second emancipation.
In a new afterwordâÈ'reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in AlabamaâÈ'the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.
"The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in AmericaâÈçs 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 AmericaâÈçs second emancipation.
In a new afterwordâÈ'reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in AlabamaâÈ'the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.
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- Title Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
- Author Diane McWhorter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 752
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-01-15
- ISBN 9781476709512 / 1476709513
- Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.5 in (23.50 x 15.88 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Locality: Birmingham, Alabama
- Theometrics: Secular
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects Civil rights movements - Alabama -, Birmingham (Ala.) - Race relations
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.178
Media reviews
âÈêThe most important book on the movement since Taylor BranchâÈçs Parting the Waters."
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