About this title: This narrative history of the civil rights movement focuses on Birmingham, Alabama over two decades--and that city's historic confrontations of 1963. The author examines the background of Birmingham's elites and how they responded to the challenges posed by the movement. She explores personalities and power struggles on both sides, and reveals new facts about events that made news, such as the famous church bombing in which four children were killed. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743217729ISBN:0743217721
Description: Acceptable. New books small to none shelf wear A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743217729ISBN:0743217721
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780684807478ISBN:0684807475
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. plastic over dust jacket; stamps, stickers and library marks; RTB87. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 704 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780743217729ISBN:0743217721
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in great shape. Tight binding. Bright and clean pages. Minimal cover and edgewear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 720 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780684807478ISBN:0684807475
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are clean and tight, spine is not creased. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 701 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. : Simon & Schuster, 2001, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780684807478ISBN:0684807475
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Like the spiritual from which the title is taken, this book is about death, redemption, and race. It builds to the national turning point known in history as the Year of Birmingham, in 1963, when two things happened there, in the country's most segregated city, that brought about the end of apartheid in America. read more
Description: Simon and Schuster, 2001. 701 pages. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Photos. Notes. Select bibliography. Index. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Faint touches of soil top and fore-edge. Bright, solid and clean; no names, marks or tears. ISBN: 0684807475. read more
"With so much new history of the civil rights movement, it's hard to pick out favorites - but this one's right up there at the top of my list. One of its many strengths is how, alongside her accounts of the various strands of the movement itself, McWhorter presents a very sharp analysis of the ways in which different segments of the white community responded to the Movement."
"I used this book heavily when I added the majority of information to the Wikipedia article "Birmingham campaign". I used many sources for that article, but McWhorter's book is more personally written, using a lot of compelling emotion, that I found somewhat difficult to remove in my writing. This is not a complaint. By writing so well, including prose that was alive and moving, I found it inspirational, and it carried over to the content I added to the article. However, Featured Articles on Wikipedia cannot be biased, so I had to remove the inspirational stuff and keep it more even-handed.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a good story with many facets to it. With the benefit of time, a lot of the Civil Rights Movement is canonized to be suspended above critical thought. But McWhorter's telling of 1963 is a very human story of good intentions and misguided notions by many people directly and tangentially involved. She very much deserved the Pulitzer for this book."
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