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McWhorter, Diane.
Subjects
Blacks -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States.
Politicians -- Alabama -- Birmingham.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations.
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McWhorter, Diane.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States.
Politicians -- Alabama -- Birmingham.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations.
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Carry me home :
Birmingham
,
Alabama
: the climactic battle of the
civil
rights
revolution / Diane McWhorter ; with a new afterword by the author.
by
McWhorter, Diane.
Simon & Schuster, 2012, c2001.
Call #:
323.1196073 M177c
Subjects
Blacks
--
Civil
rights
--
Alabama
--
Birmingham
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Blacks
--
Civil
rights
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Civil
rights
movements
--
Alabama
--
Birmingham
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Civil
rights
movements
--
United States
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Civil
rights
demonstrations
--
Alabama
--
Birmingham
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Civil
rights
--
Alabama
--
Birmingham
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Segregation
--
Alabama
--
Birmingham
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Civil
rights
workers
--
United States.
Politicians
--
Alabama
--
Birmingham
.
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Birmingham
(Ala.)
--
Race relations.
ISBN:
9781476709512 (2012 Simon & Schuster pbk.)
Alternate title:
Birmingham
,
Alabama
: the climactic battle of the
civil
rights
revolution
Description:
731 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [687]-695) and index.
Summary:
"McWhorter's magisterial narrativve tells the story of the
civil
rights
movement in
Birmingham
, from the '50s through the '60s. In the tradition of such histories as Parting the Water and Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home" documents the real story of integrating the South. It tells the story of the city called Bombingham, from the fifties through the sixties. It focuses on the black freedom fighters as well as those who resisted them--country-club elite, police, vigilantes. Meet the children who braved police dogs & fire department hoses, as well as the Ku Klux Klansmen who retaliated with dynamite. The book also breaks new ground with its startling revelations about the perpetrators of the Sunday-morning bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four black girls & still generates headlines nearly four decades later. In the tradition of such histories as Parting the Water & Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home documents the real story of integrating the South. It reveals the collusion between the city's establishment--the Big Mules--& its designated subordinates: public officials (including the infamous Bull Connor) & the Klansmen who did the dirty work. It describes the competition for primacy within the movement's black leadership, especially between
Birmingham
's flamboyant preacher-activist, Fred Shuttlesworth, & an already world-famous King, against the backdrop of a hesitant Kennedy administration & the corrupt Hoover FBI. Carry Me Home is a magisterial narrative that brings to life one of the most significant periods in American
history
. This is an invaluable contribution to the
history
of modern America. A major work of
history
, investigative journalism that breaks new ground, and personal memoir, Carry Me Home is a 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 one of the most cataclysmic periods in America's long
civil
rights
struggle. That spring, King's child demonstrators faced down Commissioner Bull Connor's police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation
--
a spectacle that seemed to belong more in the Old Testament than in twentieth-century America. A few months later, Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated with dynamite, bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and killing four young black girls. Yet these shocking events also brought redemption: They transformed the halting
civil
rights
movement into a national cause and inspired the
Civil
Rights
Act of 1964, which abolished legal segregation once and for all. Diane McWhorter, the daughter of a prominent white
Birmingham
family, brilliantly captures the opposing sides in this struggle for racial justice. Tracing the roots of the
civil
rights
movement to the Old Left and its efforts to organize labor in the 1930s, Carry Me Home shows that the movement was a waning force in desperate need of a victory by the time King arrived in
Birmingham
. McWhorter describes the competition for primacy among the movement's leaders, especially between Fred Shuttlesworth,
Birmingham
's flamboyant preacher-activist, and the already world-famous King, who was ambivalent about the direct-action tactics Shuttlesworth had been practicing for years. Carry Me Home is the first major movement
history
to uncover the segregationist resistance. McWhorter charts the careers of the bombers back to the New Deal, when Klansmen were agents of the local iron and coal industrialists fighting organized labor. She reveals the strained and veiled collusion between
Birmingham
's wealthy establishment and its designated subordinates
--
politicians, the police, and the Klan. Carry Me Home is also the story of the author's family, which was on the wrong side of the
civil
rights
revolution. McWhorter's quest to find out whether her eccentric father, the prodigal son of the white elite, was a member of the Klan mirrors the book's central revelation of collaboration between the city's Big Mules, who kept their hands clean, and the scruffy vigilantes who did the dirty work. Carry Me Home is the product of years of research in FBI and police files and archives, and of hundreds of interviews, including conversations with Klansmen who belonged to the most violent klavern in America. John and Robert Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, George Wallace, Connor, King, and Shuttlesworth appear against the backdrop of the unforgettable events of the
civil
rights
era
--
the brutal beating of the Freedom Riders as the police stood by; King's great testament, his "Letter from
Birmingham
Jail"; and Wallace's defiant "stand in the schoolhouse door." This book is a classic work about this transforming period in American
history
"--Provided by publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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