Carry Me Home. Birmingham, Alabama. The Climactic Battle Of The Civil Rights Revolution

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 719 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "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.

ISBN: 9780743217729