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Speak truth to power : the story of Charles Patrick, a civil rights pioneer / Mignette Y. Patrick Dorsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorsey, Mignette Y. Patrick.
- Series:
- Fire ant books.
- Fire ant books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography.
- Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations.
- Birmingham (Ala.).
- Birmingham (Ala.)--Biography.
- Patrick, Charles, 1918-.
- Patrick, Charles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On December 11, 1954, Charles Patrick drove to downtown Birmingham to buy a Boy Scout uniform for his son. Christmas traffic around the downtown department stores was heavy, and Patrick circled unsuccessfully until at last a streetside spot opened up and he began to pull in. As he did so, he was cut off by a woman who ordered him out of the way, as she was the wife of a city police officer. Patrick pulled away, remarking, "Ma'am, he doesn't own the streets of Birmingham." Normal low-level urban hassle? Not in 1954 Birmingham, when the woman was white and Pa
- Contents:
- A nigger defined
- The beating goes on
- The accused is the accuser
- Press attack on the devil's department
- Citizen soldiers aim and write
- The wheel stops turning
- Attorney tango: a lively shuffle
- Battle of the board
- Much ado 'bout civil rights
- Truth to power
- a movement missed.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8266-6
- OCLC:
- 664233645
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