Learning from Birmingham: A Journey Into History and Home Armstrong Julie Buckner
Learning from Birmingham: A Journey Into History and Home Armstrong Julie Buckner A steel town daughter's search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama "As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,"…
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Learning from Birmingham: A Journey Into History and Home Armstrong Julie Buckner
A steel town daughter's search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama "As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation," Fred Shuttlesworth observed when he invited Martin Luther King Jr. From the height of the Civil Rights Movement through its long aftermath, images of police dogs, fire hoses and four girls murdered when Ku Klux Klan members bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church have served as an uncomfortable racial mirror for the nation. to the city for the transformative protests of 1963.
Only after moving away and discovering writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker did she realize how her hometown and family were part of a larger, ongoing story of struggle and injustice.When Armstrong returned to Birmingham decades later to care Like many white people who came of age in the Civil Rights Movement's wake, Julie Buckner Armstrong knew little about this history.