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1963 Birmingham church bombing : the Ku Klux Klan's history of terror
- Title
- 1963 Birmingham church bombing : the Ku Klux Klan's history of terror / by Lisa Klobuchar.
- Author
- Klobuchar, Lisa.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, ©2009.
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- Description
- 95 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Retells how a bomb blew open the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young African-American girls, giving momentum to the civil rights movement, and leading to new federal civil rights laws.
- Series Statement
- Snapshots in history
- Uniform Title
- Snapshots in history.
- Alternative Title
- Nineteen sixty-three Birmingham Church bombing
- Subjects
- Racism
- African American churches
- Bombings
- Hate crimes
- African Americans > Crimes against
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Racism > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- History
- Race relations
- Alabama > Birmingham
- African American churches > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- 1900 - 1999
- Juvenile works
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Bombings > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Hate crimes > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- African Americans > Crimes against > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 93) and index.
- Contents
- Innocent victims -- Origins of the Ku Klux Klan -- Rebirth -- Klan in the 1920s -- Taking on civil rights -- Violence peaks -- Klan's fourth era : the 1970s and beyond.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-828
- ISBN
- 9780756540920
- 0756540925
- LCCN
- 2008038921
- OCLC
- 252919899
- Author
- Klobuchar, Lisa.
- Title
- 1963 Birmingham church bombing : the Ku Klux Klan's history of terror / by Lisa Klobuchar.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, ©2009.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Snapshots in historySnapshots in history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 93) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-828