The Resource Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights, U.S. Senator Doug Jones ; with Greg Truman ; foreword by Rick Bragg
Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights, U.S. Senator Doug Jones ; with Greg Truman ; foreword by Rick Bragg
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- Summary
- "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and then-US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002. This represented the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore. [This book] is a compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality and justice, related by an author who played a major role in these events."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Introduction: The arc of history
- The bombing
- Baxley
- Langford
- The job
- Rudolph
- Grand juries
- Sucker punched
- Blanton
- Politics and dementia
- Cherry
- Epiphanies
- Honoring the children
- One more chance
- Connecting the dots
- Isbn
- 9781250201447
- Label
- Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
- Title
- Bending toward justice
- Title remainder
- the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
- Statement of responsibility
- U.S. Senator Doug Jones ; with Greg Truman ; foreword by Rick Bragg
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Birmingham -- History
- Alabama -- Birmingham
- Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations | History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History
- Jones, Doug, (G. Douglas), 1954-
- LAW / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (Birmingham, Alabama : 1963)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Trials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Alabama | Birmingham
- True crime stories
- Race relations
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
- 1963
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and then-US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002. This represented the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore. [This book] is a compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality and justice, related by an author who played a major role in these events."--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jones, Doug
- Dewey number
- 323.1196/0730761781
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F334.B69
- LC item number
- N445 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Truman, Greg
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Jones, Doug
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (Birmingham, Alabama : 1963)
- Trials (Murder)
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
- Birmingham (Ala.)
- African Americans
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- LAW / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- African Americans
- Race relations
- Trials (Murder)
- Alabama
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights, U.S. Senator Doug Jones ; with Greg Truman ; foreword by Rick Bragg
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The arc of history -- The bombing -- Baxley -- Langford -- The job -- Rudolph -- Grand juries -- Sucker punched -- Blanton -- Politics and dementia -- Cherry -- Epiphanies -- Honoring the children -- One more chance -- Connecting the dots
- Control code
- on1031154719
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781250201447
- Lccn
- 2018039980
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1031154719
- Label
- Bending toward justice : the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights, U.S. Senator Doug Jones ; with Greg Truman ; foreword by Rick Bragg
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: The arc of history -- The bombing -- Baxley -- Langford -- The job -- Rudolph -- Grand juries -- Sucker punched -- Blanton -- Politics and dementia -- Cherry -- Epiphanies -- Honoring the children -- One more chance -- Connecting the dots
- Control code
- on1031154719
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781250201447
- Lccn
- 2018039980
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1031154719
Subject
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Birmingham -- History
- Alabama -- Birmingham
- Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations | History
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- History
- Jones, Doug, (G. Douglas), 1954-
- LAW / Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (Birmingham, Alabama : 1963)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
- Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Trials (Murder)
- Trials (Murder) -- Alabama | Birmingham
- True crime stories
- Race relations
- 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
- 1963
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