King and Walker for the use of children
in the protests is on pages 82–86.
Gadsden’s explanation of his actions (“I
automatically threw my knee”) is on
page 37.
The single best account of King’s
Birmingham campaign—and the book to
which this chapter is greatly indebted—
is Diane McWhorter’s Carry Me Home:
Birmingham, Alabama; The Climactic
Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
(Touchstone, 2002). If you think
Walker’s story is extraordinary, then you
should read McWhorter’s book. It is as
good a work of history as I have ever
read. “In Birmingham, it was held a fact
of criminal science” appears in a
footnote on page 340; “One of the
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