Bloody Tuesday : the untold story of the struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa / John M. Giggie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giggie, John M. (John Michael), 1965- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

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

Civil rights movements.

African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Tuscaloosa--History--20th century.

African American civil rights workers.

African American Baptists--Alabama--Tuscaloosa--History--20th century.

African American Baptists.

African American clergy--Alabama--Tuscaloosa--History--20th century.

African American clergy.

Race relations--Religious aspects.

Race relations.

Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Tuscaloosa (Ala.).

Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday, as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement.

Contents:

Prologue: "The Memory You Choose"

Introduction: "It Was Like Slavery in Another Era": Tuscaloosa, 1964

1. "The White Folks Are Going to Kill Him": The Arrival of Reverend T. Y. Rogers

2. "God, Himself, Was the Author of Segregation": The Rise of Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton

3. "The Publicity Is What Creates the Mayhem": Policing and Chief William Marable

4. "No End to the Floggings and Murders": The Cost of Protesting

5. "We Want Freedom Now": Bloody Tuesday and the Sacking of First African Baptist Church

6. "You Can't Do Nothing but Kill Me": Fighting Back

7. "How Could There Be a God and Allow This to Happen?": Testing the Civil Rights Act

8. "Sit Where Anybody Wants To": Boycotting Druid City Transit

9. "The Voices of Dissent Must Be Heard": Legacies

Epilogue: "Just Give Us Fifty Years and We'll Take It All Back"

A Note on the Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 13, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Giggie, John M. 1965- Bloody Tuesday

ISBN:

0-19-776669-2

0-19-776667-6

OCLC:

1420889632