Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution / Diane McWhorter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWhorter, Diane.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations.

Birmingham (Ala.).

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Alabama--Birmingham.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 731 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

Trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.

Summary:

The Year of Birmingham, 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America's second emancipation. In a new afterword, the author demonstrates that Alabama remains this country's civil rights crucible. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: September 15, 1963

Part I: Precedents, 1938-1959

Part II: Movement, 1960-1962

Part III: The Year of Birmingham, 1963.

Notes:

"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.

"This Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition January 2013."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-695) and index.

Pulitzer Prize 2002, General Non-Fiction.

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize.

Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.

"Best Books" list: New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, American Heritage.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented too the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has notice of Birmingham Bombing Remembrance Exhibition laid in.

ISBN:

1476709513

9781476709512

OCLC:

801441347