num_pages: 720
description: "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. That spring, child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches for desegregation. A few months later, Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, journalist and daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI documents, interviews with black activists and former Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the city, the personalities, and the events that brought about America's second emancipation.
language: English
title: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
titlecomplete: Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
genres: Social Justice, Historical, History, Race, American History, African American, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 963
places: Alabama
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: American Studies
publisher: Simon & Schuster