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Explains the why, how, where and when of the Negro nonviolent rights campaign, reveals the stories behind the headlines, and pleads the case for the Negro cause. Includes the complete, full-length text of Dr. King's famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail, in which he answers the churchmen who criticized him for "unwise and untimely" demonstrations. It also includes the personal assessment of Dr. Martin Luther King of the pattern that the Negro Revolution...
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2019.
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"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical...
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This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.
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2023.
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It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign...
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[2024]
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"It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all people can have a say in their government. Readers can learn...
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[2010]
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Racial bombings were so frequent in Birmingham that they became known as “Bombingham.” Until September 15, 1963, these attacks had been threatening but not deadly. On that Sunday morning, however, a blast in the 16th Street Baptist Church ripped through the exterior wall and claimed the lives of four girls. The church was the ideal target for segregationists, as it was the rallying place for Birmingham's African American community, Martin Luther...
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2000.
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When a bomb tore through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it took the lives of four young girls. This racially motivated hate crime fueled a nation's outrage and brought Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of America's concern during the early years of the civil rights struggle.
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