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(1999), are biographies of two key Birmingham men on opposite sides of

civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr.,Why We Can’t Wait(1964), is a classic

summary of nonviolence. Diane McWhorter’sCarry Me Home(2001), tells

of her white middle-class family as protests erupt. Glenn Eskew,But for

Birmingham(1997), studies the intersections of local and national organiza-

tions. Charles Morgan, Jr.,A Time To Speak(1964), accuses his fellow white

Birminghamians of complicity in the city’s poisoned race relations. Bill Jones,

The Wallace Story(1966), defends his boss. Gary Rowe,My Undercover

Years with the Ku Klux Klan(1976), details the seamy side of being an FBI

informant. S. Jonathan Bass,Blessed Are the Peacemakers( 2001), looks at

the white clergymen who rebuked King, as well as his famous rejoinder.

Elizabeth Cobbs,Long Time Coming(1994), identifies her uncle as the mas-

termind of the Birmingham church bombing. Frank Sikora,Until Justice

Rolls Down(1991), narrates the dastardly Birmingham church bombing.

Tuscaloosa

E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door(1993) provides a thorough

account of the standoff at the University of Alabama between George Wallace

and the federal government. Dan Carter, The Politics of Rage(1995), is a

critical portrait of Wallace’s career and political impact.

March on Washington

The most comprehensive account is Thomas Gentile, March on Washington

(1983). Patrik Bass, Like a Mighty Stream(2002), presents an overview.

Lucy Barber, Marching on Washington(2002), looks at several memorable

demonstrations to the nation’s capital. Daniel Levine’s Bayard Rustin and the

Civil Rights Movement(2000), recounts the extraordinary life of the move-

ment’s man-behind-the-scenes. In The Dream(2003), Drew Hansen closely

analyzes Martin Luther King’s inspirational speech.

Freedom Summer

Len Holt, The Summer That Didn’t End(1965), is a compelling overview

of that exciting, yet dreadful, time in Mississippi. Anne Moody, Coming of

Age in Mississippi(1968), Charles Evers, Have No Fear(1996), Myrlie

Evers, For Us, the Living(1967), Aaron Henry, Aaron Henry (2000),

Winson Hudson and Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony(2000), and

Dick Gregory, ‘Nigger’ (1964), are memoirs of activists. John Dittmer, Local

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