Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights / U.S. Senator Doug Jones ; with Greg Truman ; foreword by Rick Bragg.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250201447
- ISBN: 1250201446
- Physical Description: xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : All Points Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The arc of history -- The bombing -- Baxley -- Langford -- The job -- Rudolph -- Grand juries -- Sucker punched -- Blanton -- Politics and dementia -- Cherry -- Epiphanies -- Honoring the children -- One more chance -- Connecting the dots. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 323.1196 J76b 2019 (Text) | 33126022609592 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2019 February #1
On September 15, 1963, prosegregation terrorists set fire to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, killing four black girlsâAddie May Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesleyâand injuring 22 others. For years no perpetrators faced justice. Jones, elected in December 2017 as Alabama's first Democratic U.S. senator since 1992, chronicles how that changed. He credits a quest for justice that Alabama Attorney General William Baxley launched in the 1970s. Jones closed the quest in 2000â02 as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, leading the prosecution of two remaining Ku Klux Klan bombers. Here, Jones presents a work that is part memoir, part history detailing his efforts to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators, while unfolding an account of how elected and appointed officials enforced Jim Crow laws in the 1960s and were complacent with white supremacy.
Copyright 2019 Library Journal.VERDICT This poignant and powerful story tracks changes in Southern life since the 1960s, uncovering hard truths to correct America's moral compass with an understanding of the need for activism and political discourse to achieve social justice.âThomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe