num_pages: 514
description: At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite made to Atlanta, the South, and ultimately, all of the United States ( Detroit Free Press ). Finalist for the National Book Award, The Temple Bombing is the brilliant and moving examination of one town that came together in the face of hatred, a book that rescues a slice of the civil rights era whose lessons still resonate nearly fifty years after that fateful fall day.
language: English
title: The Temple Bombing
titlecomplete: The Temple Bombing
genres: Historical, History, Judaism, Religion, Southern, Sociology, American History, Jewish, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 262
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Da Capo Press