Leaving Birmingham

Leaving Birmingham
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Publisher : University Alabama Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0817310223
ISBN-13 : 9780817310226
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Book Synopsis Leaving Birmingham by : Paul Hemphill

Download or read book Leaving Birmingham written by Paul Hemphill and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, was the site of cataclysmic racial violence: Police commissioner "Bull" Connor attacked black demonstrators with dogs and water cannons, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his famous letter from the Birmingham jail, and four black children were killed in a church bombing. This incendiary period in Birmingham's history is the centerpiece of an intense and affecting memoir. A disaffected Birmingham native, Paul Hemphill decides to live in his hometown once again, to capture the events and essence of that summer and explore the depth of social change in Birmingham in the years since -- even as he tries to come to terms with his family, and with himself. -- back cover.


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