BIRMINGHAM! THE ALL-AMERICAN CITY!... Blacks sitting in at stores and restaurants. "Nigger lover" scrawled on shattered plate-glass windows of merchants suspected of sympathizing with them ...
BIRMINGHAM.' THE MAGIC CITY! . . . Firemen battering black women with high-pressure hoses, snarling police dogs...
BIRMINGHAM! THE FOOTBALL CAPITAL OF THE SOUTH' ... The mangled bodies of little girls in a bombed-out church. Martin Luther King Jr. and Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor—the irresistible black force meeting the immovable white object—confronting each other amid the flames...
BIRMINGHAM?
A postbellum parvenu, forged on steelmaking and railroads rather than magnolias and gentility, Birmingham dug in against the...
