Author: Marjorie Longenecker WhitePublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Birmingham Revolutionaries
Author: Marjorie Longenecker WhitePublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Author: Martin Luther King (Jr.)Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9780062509550
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Martin Luther King, Jr. rarely had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations. "Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell", King pondered a letter that fellow clergymen had published urging him to drop his campaign of nonviolent resistance and to leave the battle for racial equality to the courts. In response, King drafted his most extensive and forceful written statement against social injustice - a remarkable essay that focused the world's attention on Birmingham and spurred the famous March on Washington. Bristling with the energy and resonance of his great speeches, Letter from the Birmingham Jail is both a compelling defense of nonviolent demonstration and a rallying cry for an end to social discrimination that is just as powerful today as it was more than twenty years ago.
The Russells of Birmingham in the French Revolution and in America, 1791-1814
Author: Samuel Henry JeyesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Birmingham
Author: Carl ChinnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781781382479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
RUSSELLS OF BIRMINGHAM IN THE
Author: S. H. (Samuel Henry) 1857-1911 JeyesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781371572655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Author: Tom CutterhamPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400885213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's "lower sort" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.
The Birmingham Riots of 1791: a Closely Copied Reprint of a Pamphlet [entitled “An Authentic Account of the Riots in Birmingham,” Etc.] Published Immediately After Their Occurrence. With an Introduction
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Author: The Russells of Birmingham in the French Revolution and in America, 1791-1814 ... With Illustrations
Author: Samuel Henry JEYESThe Making of Black Revolutionaries
Author: James FormanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Birmingham Foot Soldiers
Author: Nick PattersonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Personal recollections from everyday people who marched against segregation and injustice in Alabama, risking arrest or worse, in the early 1960s. Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth: These are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. But there were thousands of others who played crucial roles too, and this volume gives voice to many local residents who also risked their lives for the cause. Myrna Carter Jackson feels no shame about the police record she garnered while demonstrating against the harsh treatment of African Americans in the city. Carolyn Walker Williams, who knew the injustice black people faced in East Birmingham even as a child, was arrested at a protest for the first time while still in school. Gerald Wren grew up in the Smithfield neighborhood, part of which was nicknamed “Dynamite Hill” as a result of the bombings of African Americans’ houses, churches, and schools. Journalist Nick Patterson interviews these and other Birmingham foot soldiers—and recounts the struggle and adversity overcome. Includes photos