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Author | : MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780241339466 |
This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.
Author | : Paul Hemphill |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780817310226 |
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, was the site of cataclysmic racial violence: Police commissioner "Bull" Connor attacked black demonstrators with dogs and water cannons, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his famous letter from the Birmingham jail, and four black children were killed in a church bombing. This incendiary period in Birmingham's history is the centerpiece of an intense and affecting memoir. A disaffected Birmingham native, Paul Hemphill decides to live in his hometown once again, to capture the events and essence of that summer and explore the depth of social change in Birmingham in the years since -- even as he tries to come to terms with his family, and with himself. -- back cover.
Author | : Greater Birmingham Foundation |
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Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Endowments |
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Author | : Jera C. King |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Birmingham (Ala.) |
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Author | : Marvin Clemons |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-01-04 |
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ISBN | : 9780692537350 |
An illustrated history of Birmingham (AL) Terminal Station, from 1909 to 1969
Author | : Charles E. Connerly |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0813935385 |
One of Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2006 "But for Birmingham," Fred Shuttleworth recalled President John F. Kennedy saying in June 1963 when he invited black leaders to meet with him, "we would not be here today." Birmingham is well known for its civil rights history, particularly for the violent white-on-black bombings that occurred there in the 1960s, resulting in the city’s nickname "Bombingham." What is less well known about Birmingham’s racial history, however, is the extent to which early city planning decisions influenced and prompted the city’s civil rights protests. The first book-length work to analyze this connection, "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980 uncovers the impact of Birmingham’s urban planning decisions on its black communities and reveals how these decisions led directly to the civil rights movement. Spanning over sixty years, Charles E. Connerly’s study begins in the 1920s, when Birmingham used urban planning as an excuse to implement racial zoning laws, pointedly sidestepping the 1917 U.S. Supreme Court Buchanan v. Warley decision that had struck down racial zoning. The result of this obstruction was the South’s longest-standing racial zoning law, which lasted from 1926 to 1951, when it was redeclared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite the fact that African Americans constituted at least 38 percent of Birmingham’s residents, they faced drastic limitations to their freedom to choose where to live. When in the1940s they rebelled by attempting to purchase homes in off-limit areas, their efforts were labeled as a challenge to city planning, resulting in government and court interventions that became violent. More than fifty bombings ensued between 1947 and 1966, becoming nationally publicized only in 1963, when four black girls were killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Connerly effectively uses Birmingham’s history as an example to argue the importance of recognizing the link that exists between city planning and civil rights. His demonstration of how Birmingham’s race-based planning legacy led to the confrontations that culminated in the city’s struggle for civil rights provides a fresh lens on the history and future of urban planning, and its relation to race.
Author | : Stephen Birmingham |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504026284 |
The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.
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Total Pages | : 1124 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations |
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Author | : Victor Skipp |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Birmingham (England) |
ISBN | : 9780950699806 |
Author | : James Ronald Bennett |
Publisher | : Historical Publishing Network |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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