| Number | 18615 |
| Subject | Civil Rights |
| Source | Simon & Schuster |
| State | NY |
| Year | 2001 |
| Publication Date | March |
| Summary | The book tells a narrative history of the civil rights struggles in Birmingham, Alabama, focusing especially on the bombing of a church that killed four little girls. Using FOIA'd documents and interviews, McWhorter is able to show the FBI's complicity and involvement in racial violence and the Ku Klux Klan, police involvement in the bombing of Martin Luther King's hotel, and Commissioner Bull Connor's and church bomber Robert Chambliss. |
| Category | Contest Entry |
| Pages | 4 |
| Keywords | BOOK;civil rights;Ku Klux Klan;Birmingham;Alabama;Bull Connor;Martin Luther King;FBI |
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