
Carry Me Home
Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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Xe Sands
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Diane McWhorter
The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation.
"The Year of Birmingham", 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young Black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with Black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America's second emancipation.
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But the weirdest thing is that the narrator replacing the n-word with mmm-mmm each time.
Mmm-mmm?
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Fabulous account
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A Well Told History
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Slow Down !
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The True History of Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement.
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A criticism of the audio book, however, is the refusal to use the "N" word when quoting someone in history. I appreciate the difficulty and complexity of using that word. I also believe that avoiding it is a way to soften the impact of this history. The history is brutal, the word was used regularly to demean a population, and I, for one, do not want the impact of this history softened. Quotes that include the use of the "N" word should be read fully so the listener can feel the full harshness of the era.
A Monumental Contribution
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Worth the read
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Bought this hard copy couple years ago
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Simply Excellent
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Speaking of names... Lordy, there are names! Freedom Riders, protestors, preachers, police officers, the infamous police dogs, journalists, the people in (federal, state, and local!) government, the KKK, the neoNazis, the communists, the waitstaff at the country clubs, the miners, the teachers, the janitors, seriously, I would not be surprised if there were over 1000 people named in this book! Some of them come up repeatedly, but after so long an absence, that I'm *still* not sure if they were a good guy or a bad one! I'd say this book needs a cheat sheet, but it'd be 10 pages long!
I normally don't like to listen to nonfiction on audiobooks. I don't know why, it doesn't flow for me as well or something. I didn't really get into this book until we got to the 60s. The book covers Birmingham's entire history, including how it was founded as a mining town, which lead into the power structures that were well in place to hold fast to segregation. It detailed Bull Connor's life (originally a radio baseball announcer) and George Wallace's (originally a proponent of integration until he realized he could build a political career on segregation). It detailed a lot of other stuff that has unfortunately already slipped out of my brain. In addition to the (thousands, I swear!) names, the narrator read very fast. This was not a book on any level that I could listen to while doing dishes, cooking dinner, or driving because it required all of my attention. That said, I don't fault Xe Sands for reading so fast. The audiobook was 29 hours long as it was! Had she read any slower, it woulda taken 39!
All that said, why did I read this book? Why did I stick with it? The events that happened in Birmingham are important and still relevant. They cut to the soul of this country as it was, as it is, and as it can become. For good and evil all the way around. The KKK and neo Nazis haven't gone away. Hell, they haven't even stopped attacking people in churches. Yet the fight against the forces of evil have helped bend the arc of human history (slowly) towards justice. You can't brush off your hands and say "well, those fights are long over", cause they're not. We've come a long way, but there are still politicians who say the quiet parts out loud. Maybe they don't quite go as far as "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and maybe they don't give the Klan 15 minutes head start on beating bus riders before the police will respond, but they channel those days and those sentiments. I pray we don't have to lose innocent young people in new church shoes to make us see that those hateful feelings are alive and dangerous.
DEEP dive into the history of Birmingham
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