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 afterword--reporting last encounters with hero Reverend
Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic
anti-immigration laws in Alabama--the author demonstrates that
Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.
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