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Carry Me Home

Diane McWhorter

How did the leaders of one segregated Southern city nurture the Klan and so provoke the nonviolent revolt that helped end legal segregation?

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Author
Diane McWhorter

Why read it

  • You will see how respectable local leaders, not only extremists, can sustain injustice
  • You will understand how school age marchers in Birmingham turned national opinion behind a federal law to end segregation
  • You will be able to ask hard questions about your own family's or town's part in past injustice

Who it is for

  • A reader of civil rights history who wants the local story
  • Someone from a place with a hidden past to face
  • A writer digging into a family's history

Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. SEPTEMBER 15, 1963
  4. PART I
  5. Precedents
  6. 1938–1959
  7. PART II
  8. Movement
  9. 1960–1962
  10. PART III
  11. The Year of Birmingham
  12. EPILOGUE
  13. JUSTICE: 2001
  14. DÉJÀ VU: 2012
  15. Photographs
  16. About Diane McWhorter

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