Record details

• ISBN: 0743217721
• ISBN: 9780743217729
• Physical Description: 719 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st Touchstone edition
• Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002.
• Copyright: ©2001

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: 2001.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-685) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: September 15, 1963 19 -- Part I Precedents, 1938-1959 -- 1. City of Perpetual Promise: 1938 31 -- 2. Ring Out the Old: 1948 56 -- 3. Mass Movements: 1954-1956 84 -- 4. Rehearsal: 1956-1959 111 -- Part II Movement, 1960-1962 -- 5. Breaking Out 149 -- 6. Action 179 -- 7. Freedom Ride 200 -- 8. Pivot 236 -- 9. Full Cast 259 -- 10. Progress 282 -- Part III Year of Birmingham, 1963 -- 11. New Day Dawns 303 -- 12. Mad Dogs and Responsible Negroes 323 -- 13. Baptism 338 -- 14. Two Mayors and a King 351 -- 15. D-Day 365 -- 16. Miracle 379 -- 17. Mayday 396 -- 18. Threshold 411 -- 19. Edge of Heaven 423 -- 20. No More Water 441 -- 21. Schoolhouse Door 455 -- 22. End of Segregation 466 -- 23. Beginning of Integration 477 -- 24. All the Governor's Men 487 -- 25. A Case of Dynamite 497 -- 26. Eve 509 -- 27. Denise, Carole, Cynthia, and Addie 519 -- 28. Aftershocks 531 -- 29. BAPBOMB 544 -- 30. General Lee's Namesakes 559.

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African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century.
Birmingham (Ala.) > Race relations.