Diane McWhorter
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Diane McWhorter
A major work of history, investigative journalism that breaks new ground, and personal memoir, Carry Me Home is a 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 one of the most cataclysmic periods in America’s long civil rights struggle. That spring, King’s child demonstrators faced down Commissioner Bull Connor’s police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation—a spectacle…
