eBooks - Social Issues - Ethnic Studies - Diane McWhorter - Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama eBooks
by Diane McWhorter
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama Summary
| It tells the story of the city called Bombingham, from the fifties through the sixties. It focuses on the black freedom fighters as well as those who resisted them -- country-club elite, police, vigilantes. Meet the children who braved police dogs and fire department hoses, as well as the Ku Klux Klansmen who retaliated with dynamite. The book also breaks new ground with its startling revelations about the perpetrators of the Sunday-morning bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four black girls and still generates headlines nearly four decades later. In the tradition of such histories as Parting the Water and Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home documents the real story of integrating the South. It reveals the collusion between the city's establishment -- the Big Mules -- and its designated subordinates: public officials (including the infamous Bull Connor) and the Klansmen who did the dirty work. It describes the competition for primacy within the movement's black leadership, especially between Birmingham's flamboyant preacher-activist, Fred Shuttlesworth, and an already world-famous King, against the backdrop of a hesitant Kennedy administration and the corrupt Hoover FBI. Carry Me Home is a magisterial narrative that brings to life one of the most significant periods in American history. This is an invaluable contribution to the history of modern America. |
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