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Article: Birmingham Revolutionaries: the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Edited by Marjorie L. White and Andrew M. Manis. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xii], 80. $22.00, ISBN 0-86554-709-2.)
In May 2001 a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted Thomas Blanton Jr. for the 1963 bombing of a black church that killed four girls; in May 2002 Bobby Frank Cherry was also convicted of the same crime. The conviction of the aging Klansmen almost forty years after the terrorist attack on the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church has reminded the world once again of the bitter struggle for racial equality in the South. During the mid-twentieth century, Birmingham embodied the brutalities of white racism. Persistent legal and ...