Nick Patterson

Birmingham Foot Soldiers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Personal recollections from everyday people who marched against segregation and injustice in Alabama, risking arrest or worse, in the early 1960s. Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth: These are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. But there were thousands of others who played crucial roles too, and this volume gives voice to many local residents who also risked their lives for the cause. Myrna Carter Jackson feels no shame about the police record she garnered while demonstrating against the harsh treatment of African Americans in the city. Carolyn Walker Williams, who knew the injustice black people faced in East Birmingham even as a child, was arrested at a protest for the first time while still in school. Gerald Wren grew up in the Smithfield neighborhood, part of which was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill" as a result of the bombings of African Americans' houses, churches, and schools. Journalist Nick Patterson interviews these and other Birmingham foot soldiers-and recounts the struggle and adversity overcome. Includes photos

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625846969
• Artikelnr.: 41061769

Autorenporträt

Nick Patterson is currently an editor at Weld for Birmingham. He is a contract writer and freelance communications consultant, and adjunct faculty at University of Alabama Birmingham. Nick has worked as communications director for the Birmingham Museum of Art, a journalist for the Birmingham Post-Herald for seventeen years, an editor for Southern Living Magazine for nine years and as a media relations specialist for University of Alabama Birmingham.