![]() ![]() It is a good and useful book, and it sheds light upon a few dark corners of those hard years, but it falls short of its author's ambitions.Īs inspiration and mentor McWhorter cites the late J. Carry Me Home is immense in size - yet McWhorter confesses that "my original manuscript was three times the present length of the book"! - but rather smaller in historical and literary weight. Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolutionĭiane McWhorter, a native of Birmingham with familial ties to that city's ruling class, has spent more than a decade and a half researching the events that took place there - many of them dreadful - during the long struggle to assure the rights and opportunities of black Americans. ![]()
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