eBooks - History - World - Diane McWhorter - Carry Me Home
Carry Me Home eBook
by Diane McWhorter
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| "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation. A few months later, Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, journalist and daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI documents, interviews with black activists and former Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the city, the personalities, and the events that brought about America's second emancipation. As reviewed by ginny chandler on June 9, 2002 "Ms. Wcwhorter's revisit to Birmingham's most horrible and shameful events of my history forced me to also revisit my past which just happened to be in that time and in the exact places. The emotions were sometimes overwhelming. The names, places, propaganda newsletters, rallies,petitions,were all to familiar to me having been brought up in a small town northeast of Birmingham, Alabama, by a parent who was a member and activist of the National States Right Party, and the "Thunderbolt" our news source for "The Truth." Some of the names mentioned in her book were "friends and neighbors." Some of the rallies I had attended (of course, left in the car, probably safe because of all the police in the area writing down license plate numbers) How naive and ignorant I was. Thank you for answering questions that have long troubled me. Thank you for reminding me that I have not, nor should not, ever forget the impact this time had in my life then and will continue to have for the rest of my life.I only wish I could have been a part of the research team for this book. That had to be an incredible opportunity. |
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