![]() ![]() Yet she brings a gripping pace and an unusual, two-fold perspective to her account, incorporating her viewpoint as a child (she was largely ignorant of what was going on "downtown," even as her father took an increasingly active role in opposing the civil rights movement), as well as her adult viewpoint as an avid scholar and journalist. McWhorter, a regular New York TimesĬontributor, focuses on two shattering moments in Birmingham in 1963 that led to "the end of apartheid in America": when "Bull Connor's police dogs and fire hoses" attacked "school age witnesses for justice," and when the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Church, killing four black girls. The story of civil rights in Birmingham, Ala., has been told before-from the unspeakable violence to the simple, courageous decencies-but fresh, sometimes startling details distinguish this doorstop page-turner told by a daughter of the city's white elite. ![]()
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