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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution Reissue Edition
Contributor(s): McWhorter, Diane (Author)

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 ISBN: 1476709513     ISBN-13: 9781476709512
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
Dewey: 976.178
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.25" W x 9.25" L (2.35 lbs) 752 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Theometrics - Secular
- Topical - Black History
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Locality - Birmingham, Alabama
- Cultural Region - South
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation.

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. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America's second emancipation.

In a new afterword--reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama--the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.

Contributor Bio(s): McWhorter, Diane: - Diane McWhorter is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and the op-ed page of USA TODAY, among other national publications. Her young adult history of the civil rights movement is A Dream of Freedom. She is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and now lives in New York City.
 
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