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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
By Jones, Doug
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- 9781250201447 9781250201454
- Publisher
- All Points
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Reviewed on February 1, 2019 | Paths To Justice
On September 15, 1963, prosegregation terrorists set fire to the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, killing four black girls—Addie May Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley—and 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 credi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
