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

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

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

by McWhorter, Diane

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0743217721
ISBN 13
9780743217729
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New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 2002. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Fifth printing. Rear cover creased, smudge on last page. 2002 Trade Paperback. 719 pp. A journalist chronicles the peak of the civil rights movement, focusing on the African-American freedom fighters who stood firm on issues of civil rights and segregation during the movement's eventful climax in Birmingham and the white establishment that opposed them.

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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.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
2337582
Title
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama - The Climatic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Author
McWhorter, Diane
Format/Binding
Trade Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
5th Printing
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0743217721
ISBN 13
9780743217729
Publisher
Touchstone / Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2002
Size
6x1x9
Keywords
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AMERICAN HISTORY AMERICANA BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES BLACK STUDIES CULTURAL STUDIES RACE RACISM SOCIOLOGY
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33 oz

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