Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
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Truman, Greg, author.
Published
New York : All Points Books, 2019.
Status
Courthouse - Adult Nonfiction
323.1196 JONES
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Published
New York : All Points Books, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English

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Includes index.
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"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and then-US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002. This represented the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore. [This book] is a compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality and justice, related by an author who played a major role in these events."--Dust jacket.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jones, D. 1., & Truman, G. (2019). Bending toward justice: the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights (First edition.). All Points Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jones, Doug 1954- and Greg, Truman. 2019. Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights. All Points Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jones, Doug 1954- and Greg, Truman. Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights All Points Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Jones, Doug 1954-, and Greg Truman. Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights First edition., All Points Books, 2019.

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