Carry me home, Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution, Diane McWhorter
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Carry me home, Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution, Diane McWhorter
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-695) and index
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Carry me home
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801441347
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Diane McWhorter
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Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution
Summary
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
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pt. I. Precedents, 1918-1959 -- part II. Movement, 1960-1962 -- part III. The year of Birmingham, 1963
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adult
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