Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by Diane McWhorter · 2001
Buy on AmazonThe year of Birmingham, 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls.
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2002 · pulitzer.org