Birmingham
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.45 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00B2PLJMA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stafford lives in Santa Rosa, California. . His previous fiction includes a trilogy of American social justice movements: The Stamp of Glory; Sisters; and The Law of Love. About the Author Tim Stafford is an author and journalist with more than 25 books to his credit
I Stand by What I Said on the Back of the Book First things first, I blurbed on this book. You can see what I said:"A reporter's eye for detail brings this fictional tale of the civil rights movement to life. The flawed but brave protagonists draw us in, and make us wonder how we would have fared in the struggle against the. History Live J. Miller For those of us who have grown up after the Civil Rights movement, the details seem sometimes to be figments of an unimaginable history. They seem like they happened a long time ago. But it's only this April that we reach the 50th anniversary of MLK's arrest in Birmingham in 19. Birmingham Revisited Tim Stafford's Birmingham is a look at a small part of the long, hard Civil Rights struggle through an idealistic young seminary student's eyes. It's a great book club read because it so naturally leads to a discussion of "Where were you in 1963 and how aware were you of the ev
The setting is 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, the "meanest city in the South." Martin Luther King, Jr., has come to town to confront segregation in the person of Bull Connor, the Commissioner of Public Safety. He is taken in by a charismatic local civil rights leader and put to work for the protest movement. Their ideals clash, but events bind the two close together as they follow King to the apocalyptic encounter between Birmingham's black children and the dogs and fire hoses of the Birmingham white establishment.. There he meets Dorcas Jones, young, black, cynical and committed. Chris Wright, young, white, penniless and idealistic, arrives by Greyhound bus, anxious to join King in the fight
Tim Stafford is an author and journalist with more than 25 books to his credit. Stafford lives in Santa Rosa, California. His previous fiction includes a trilogy of American social justice movements: The Stamp of Glory; Sisters; and The Law of Love.