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The gentle giant of Dynamite Hill : the untold story of Arthur Shores and his family's fight for civil rights / Helen Shores Lee & Barbara S. Shores ; with Denise George.
Van Pelt Library F334.B653 S465 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Helen Shores, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904-1996.
- Shores, Arthur D.
- African American lawyers--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography.
- African American lawyers.
- Civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Birmingham (Ala.).
- Birmingham (Ala.)--Biography.
- Alabama--Birmingham.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, [2012]
- Summary:
- From the perspective of his daughters, chronicles the life of the civil rights attorney who, with his family, came under attack by the KKK in the 1960s for representing desegregation cases, the NAACP, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Contents:
- 1 "Why, Daddy?" 15
- 2 The Bomb Blast 23
- 3 When Lightning Strikes 27
- 4 The Public Reacts to the Bombing 35
- 5 Lightning Strikes Twice 40
- 6 The Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church 50
- 7 Our Father's Early Years 56
- 8 The Early Practice 66
- 9 Standing Up to Be Counted 73
- 10 The Communist "Red" Scare 80
- 11 The Case That Changed Everything 84
- 12 The Rape 87
- 13 Family Life on First Street 90
- 14 The Fight to Equalize Salaries for Black Teachers 98
- 15 Working on the Railroad 103
- 16 The Continuing Voting Rights Battle: Mitchell v. Wright 109
- 17 Unfair Zoning Laws 114
- 18 Living under Jim Crow Laws 121
- 19 Helen Leaves Birmingham 125
- 20 Bull Connor Arrests Senator Taylor 131
- 21 The Problem with Segregated Schools: Brown v. Board of Education 137
- 22 The Perfect Storm 144
- 23 The Shortage of Black Schools 151
- 24 Miss Autherine Lucy and the University of Alabama 155
- 25 Riots Break Out on Campus 161
- 26 Montgomery's Bus Boycott 169
- 27 Growing Up in Jim Crow Alabama 175
- 28 The Lillie Boman Case 183
- 29 The Year of Greatest Conflict: 1963, Birmingham 189
- 30 The Days the Children Marched 199
- 31 George Wallace Stands in the Schoolhouse Door 202
- 32 Frustration and Fury in Washington 208
- 33 Holidays after a Long Hot Summer 214
- 34 1965: Marching toward Freedom 218
- 35 Birmingham in 1968: Becoming a New City 226
- 36 Our Father's Political Dreams Finally Come True 232
- 37 Arthur Davis Shores and the Chaotic 1968 Democratic Convention 235
- 38 Final Days 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0310336201
- 9780310336204
- OCLC:
- 783136969
- Publisher Number:
- 99950198979
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