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Transcript: `The Temple Bombing' Explores Civil Rights and Jews
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- May 5, 1996
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Author Melissa Fay Greene's book examines the bombing of a prominent
Jewish synagogue in 1958 in Atlanta and the events surrounding it
as a symbol of growing tensions over the Southern civil rights movement.
DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: On October 12th, 1958, at exactly 3:37 a.m.,
50 sticks of dynamite exploded outside one of the best known Jewish
synagogues in the American South, `the temple,' as people called it,
in Atlanta. And writer Melissa Fay Greene has written a new book
that examines the bombing and the events around it as a symbol of
the growing tensions over the civil rights movements, the tensions
not just between whites and blacks but between ...