![]() ![]() The story of Birmingham is the story of Klansmen, sanctioned police brutality and racism so ingrained in Southern culture that even Martin Luther King Jr. (The only direct repercussion she experienced from the bombing was that her school’s Music Manrehearsals were canceled.) In a way, this book serves as her attempt at redemption. ![]() McWhorter was too young and too sheltered to understand what was happening at the time. 15, 1963, McWhorter was a white girl living in Birmingham, almost the same age as four black girls killed by a bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church. But more important, it will exhaust you emotionally. Yes, it is a dense 700-page read about the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Ala. Diane McWhorter’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Carry Me Home, will exhaust you. ![]()
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