One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets,...

From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign-ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. --from Amazon.