Title

Carry me home : Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution

Description

McWhorter's magisterial narrative tells the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, from the '50s through the '60s. In the tradition of such histories as Parting the Water and Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home" documents the real story of integrating the South. It tells the story of the city called Bombingham, from the fifties through the sixties. It focuses on the black freedom fighters as well as those who resisted them--country-club elite, police, vigilantes.

Identifier

937572

684807475

Creator

McWhorter, Diane

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2001

Program air date: May 27, 2001

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front fly leaf: "Sunday - Sept. 15, 1963. - MLK's march. - 1963: Birmingham. - 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. - Changed my life - 1976 volume on Bicentennial series on Alabama. - I - in Boston - spent last 15 years. - My cousin: Sid Smyer; Bull Connor: queerest tory politician in history; James Alexander Simpson; Fred Shuttlesworth; Popsie - J. Simpson II; Uncle Hobart; Mountain Brook Club ("Big Mules") vs. The Birmingham Club. - Colored boy and the dog. - Birm. led the Civil Rights Act of 1964. - Pres. of the Ultra Elite High School Society Tau Kappa Delta. - Jan. 4, 1962: Hoover informed Kennedy's MLK was involved in Communist plot, p. 260. - George Wallace - "never be outniggered again". - John Birch Society: my grandmother had been introduced to my grandfather by Welch in 1920 [?]. - Chuck Morgan - Hobart. - Tom King runs for Mayor - meets Bull Connor and surprises him with photo shaking hands with a black man " The Black hand treatment", p. 197." -- Notes on back fly leaf: " The bombing; Denise, Cynthia, Carole, Addie. - Robert Chambliss; J.B. Stoner; Gary Thomas Rowe - FBI informer. - MLK - letter from the Birm. jail; he was 34. - My uncle Hobart has survived a heart attack. - My father Martin Westgate McWhorter. - Communist training school at Monteagle, TN. - Margaret Tutweiler. -- Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. - Examples: p. 17: "The civil rights movement was created from the rib of organized labor, and the industrialists answered it with a "grassroots" counteroffensive of hooded vigilantes and the queerest tory politician in history, a loudmouthed hick names Bull Connor." - p. 533: ""What murdered these four girls?" he said to reporters. "The apathy and the complacency of many Negroes who will sit down on their stools and do nothing and not engage in creative protest to get rid of this evil."" - p. 585: "This is my monument to the Movement, but it is a monument to my father, too: another enemy disarmed by nonviolence, another lost soul, now consecrated to history." - p. 587: "Birmingham was America's city in a valley, but out of the depths rose a city upon a hill. Beauty from destruction. There is magic in that."

Subject

"African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Alabama--Birmingham."

"Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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