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Bombingham
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Author : Anthony Grooms
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Bombingham written by Anthony Grooms and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
Walter Burke, a soldier in Vietnam, reflects on his time in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama.
Bombingham Day Of Reckoning
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Author : R. Earl Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06
Bombingham Day Of Reckoning written by R. Earl Muir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with categories.
In the midst of my depression, several instances of hate crimes made the national news. Were these crimes increasing or was I just more aware now? Then the world was hit by a pandemic and normal life was placed on hold as we battled to stop the spread of a virus while our government seemed to ignore what was happening. Then in the midst of the new normal of living in seclusion, more hate crimes emerged along with several instances of police brutality and heinous behaviors that made me question our morality as a nation. All of this culminated into civil unrest that we have not seen since the sixties. As I watched demonstrators, militias and police clash in several cities on my TV screen, my research became much too close to the reality of the present day for my own comfort.My hope is that the fictional story portrayed in this book causes the reader to think and consider the consequences of not only our prejudices, but also our indifference. We all bear a responsibility to not only not be a racist, but we must work tirelessly to be anti-racist by speaking out when we see hate and injustice anywhere. We must all work to do our part to love our neighbor, regardless of their skin color, lifestyle, or economic standing. Lastly, we must all be students of our history and work to make sure that the mistakes of our past and even those of our ancestors are never repeated.
Bombingham
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Author : Jamantha Williams Watson
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-17
Bombingham written by Jamantha Williams Watson and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-17 with categories.
On September 15, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, tragedy struck an entire nation; as the precious lives of four girls were taken during a senseless hate crime. The bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church reignited the civil rights movement as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and several other civil rights workers fought for social justice in America. Although gone, the dear lives of Addie Mae Collins -14, (April 18, 1949); Carole Rosamond Robertson - 14, (April 24, 1949); Cynthia Diane Wesley -14, (April 30, 1949); and Carole Denise McNair -11, (September 17, 1951); will forever remain in our memories. In "Bombingham: A One Act Play Based on the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing," the intimate account of the events surrounding the incident are documented.
Welcome To Bombingham
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Author : Rhonda Rucker
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2019
Welcome To Bombingham written by Rhonda Rucker and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
In 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, nonviolent activist Shirley Dupree tutors Earl B. Peterson, whose grades plummeted, threatening his college scholarship, after his mother's death by a Ku Klux Klan bomb.
Bombingham Boy
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Author : Martha Nell Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Bombingham Boy written by Martha Nell Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Birmingham (Ala.) categories.
But For Birmingham
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Author : Glenn T. Eskew
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
But For Birmingham written by Glenn T. Eskew and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this vivid narrative account, Glenn Eskew traces the evolution of nonviolent protest in the city, focusing particularly on the sometimes problematic intersection of the local and national movements. Eskew describes the changing face of Birmingham's civil rights campaign, from the politics of accommodation practiced by the city's black bourgeoisie in the 1950s to local pastor Fred L. Shuttlesworth's groundbreaking use of nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation during the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1963, the national movement, in the person of Martin Luther King Jr., turned to Birmingham. The national uproar that followed on Police Commissioner Bull Connor's use of dogs and fire hoses against the demonstrators provided the impetus behind passage of the watershed Civil Rights Act of 1964. Paradoxically, though, the larger victory won in the streets of Birmingham did little for many of the city's black citizens, argues Eskew. The cancellation of protest marches before any clear-cut gains had been made left Shuttlesworth feeling betrayed even as King claimed a personal victory. While African Americans were admitted to the leadership of the city, the way power was exercised--and for whom--remained fundamentally unchanged.
The Civil Rights Movement
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Author : Heather Adamson
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Civil Rights Movement written by Heather Adamson and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
It is the late 1950s, and African Americans don't enjoy the same rights promised to other Americans, especially in the South. Many African Americans decide to work for change. Will you: Participate in the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas? OR . . . Help desegregate bus lines as a Freedom Rider? OR . . . Get involved in the Project C protests in Birmingham, Alabama? Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to equal rights or to violence and even death.
Race Mixing
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Author : Suzanne W. Jones
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-02-15
Race Mixing written by Suzanne W. Jones and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-15 with History categories.
In the southern United States, there remains a deep need among both black and white writers to examine the topic of race relations, whether they grew up during segregation or belong to the younger generation that graduated from integrated schools. In Race Mixing, Suzanne Jones offers insightful and provocative readings of contemporary novels, the work of a wide range of writers—black and white, established and emerging. Their stories explore the possibilities of cross-racial friendships, examine the repressed history of interracial love, reimagine the Civil Rights era through children's eyes, herald the reemergence of the racially mixed character, investigate acts of racial violence, and interrogate both rural and urban racial dynamics. Employing a dynamic model of the relationship between text and context, Jones shows how more than thirty relevant writers—including Madison Smartt Bell, Larry Brown, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thulani Davis, Ellen Douglas, Ernest Gaines, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Reynolds Price, Alice Walker, and Tom Wolfe—illuminate the complexities of the color line and the problems in defining racial identity today. While an earlier generation of black and white southern writers challenged the mythic unity of southern communities in order to lay bare racial divisions, Jones finds in the novels of contemporary writers a challenge to the mythic sameness within racial communities—and a broader definition of community and identity. Closely reading these stories about race in America, Race Mixing ultimately points to new ways of thinking about race relations. "We need these fictions," Jones writes, "to help us imagine our way out of the social structures and mind-sets that mythologize the past, fragment individuals, prejudge people, and divide communities."
The Columbia Guide To Contemporary African American Fiction
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Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-14
The Columbia Guide To Contemporary African American Fiction written by Darryl Dickson-Carr and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-14 with Literary Collections categories.
From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism.
Carry Me Home
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Author : Diane McWhorter
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-06-29
Carry Me Home written by Diane McWhorter and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-29 with History categories.
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.