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

English

ISBN: 0743217721

EAN: 9780743217729

Category: Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations/Political Science / Civil Rights/History / United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, Ms, Nc, Sc, Tn, Va, Wv)/

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release Date: 04/27/2002

Synopsis: The Year of Birmingham, 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in Americas 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 Americas second emancipation.

Awards: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize – null  Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  Pulitzer Prize – null  Southern Book Critics Circle Awards – null  Ambassador Book Awards – null 

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

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.7 inches

Width: 6.12 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 31.82 oz

Pages: 720