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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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2000.
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English
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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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[2023]
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From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaignten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. Its 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 photothat of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating...
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