Diane McWhorter

Carry Me Home

Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

"With a new afterword by the author"--P. 1 of cover.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Reissue edition
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1098g
• ISBN-13: 9781476709512
• ISBN-10: 1476709513
• Artikelnr.: 36150888

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Introduction: September 15, 1963
Part I: Precedents, 1938-1959
1. The City of Perpetual Promise: 1938
2. Ring Out the Old: 1948
3. Mass Movements: 1954-1956
4. Rehearsal: 1956-1959
Part II: Movement, 1960-1962
5. Breaking Out
6. Action
7. Freedom Ride
8. Pivot
9. The Full Cast
10. Progress
Part III: The Year of Birmingham, 1963
11. New Day Dawns
12. Mad Dogs and Responsible Negroes
13. Baptism
14. Two Mayors and a King
15. D-Day
16. Miracle
17. Mayday
18. The Threshold
19. Edge of Heaven
20. No More Water
21. The Schoolhouse Door
22. The End of Segregation
23. The Beginning of Integration
24. All the Governor's Men
25. A Case of Dynamite
26. The Eve
27. Denise, Carole, Cynthia, and Addie
28. Aftershocks
29. BAPBOMB
30. General Lee's Namesakes
Epilogue
Abbreviations Used in Source Notes
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index