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Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution / Diane McWhorter.
- Title
- Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution / Diane McWhorter.
- Author
- McWhorter, Diane
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F334.B69 N449 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 731 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., map, facsims.; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "With a new afterword by the author"--P. 1 of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [687]-695) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt.1: Precedents, 1938-1959 -- Pt.2: Movement, 1960-1962 -- Pt.3: The Year of Birmingham, 1963.
- ISBN
- 1476709513
- 9781476709512
- OCLC
- 801441347
- SCSB-10850996
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library