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  title info:
    title: Bending toward justice
    sub title: the Birmingham church bombing that changed the course of civil rights
  name:
    name part: Jones, Doug (G. Douglas)
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Truman, Greg
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.' Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and then US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002. This represented the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore. This book is a compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality and justice, related by an author who played a major role in these events.
  table of contents: Introduction: The arc of history -- The bombing -- Baxley -- Langford -- The job -- Rudolph -- Grand juries -- Sucker punched -- Blanton -- Politics and dementia -- Cherry -- Epiphanies -- Honoring the children -- One more chance -- Connecting the dots.
  target audience: adult
  note: U.S. Senator Doug Jones with Greg Truman.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-al
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jones, Doug (G. Douglas)
      name part: 1954-
  subject:
    topic: Trials (Murder)
    geographic: Alabama
    geographic: Birmingham
  subject:
    topic: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
    geographic: Alabama
    geographic: Birmingham
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Birmingham (Ala.)
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
  subject:
    topic: LAW / Civil Rights
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  classification: F334.B69 N445 2019
  classification: 323.1196/0730761781
  identifier: 9781250201447
  identifier: 1250201446
  identifier: 9781250201454
  identifier: 2018039980
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181009
    record change date: 20190718163530.0
    record identifier: in00004074431