Bloody Tuesday : the untold story of the struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa /
"This book began in a barbershop. Reverend. Thomas William "T.W." Linton, the spry then seventy-seven-year-old owner, was sharing memories from his sixty-year career while cutting my hair on a summer afternoon in Tuscaloosa in 2011. I had been coming to the shop since reading about hi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book began in a barbershop. Reverend. Thomas William "T.W." Linton, the spry then seventy-seven-year-old owner, was sharing memories from his sixty-year career while cutting my hair on a summer afternoon in Tuscaloosa in 2011. I had been coming to the shop since reading about him in the Tuscaloosa News about two years earlier. Rev. Linton loved to reminisce while he worked. When he was unhurried, he would take up to an hour before stashing his clippers and swinging the black barber's cape off my shoulders. With no one waiting in line that day, Rev. Linton had the time to focus on me and tell a story about an event that changed his life. I had heard snippets of it from him before but never the whole version"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197766699 0197766692 0197766684 9780197766675 0197766676 9780197766682 |