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"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."--Dust jacket.… (más)
This is a honestly the best True Crime book I have read in a long time it actually tells the crime it then tells how they found the suspects it then tells how does the suspect fared in court this is a true crime not most of this garbage we get today as a true-crime novel kudos the Doug Jones ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(Foreword) In Harper Lee's American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author conjures a modest country lawyer from imagination and memory, from pieces of her own father, and sets him against Southern society itself, against prejudice and meanness and the petrified opinions of a doomed but lingering ideal.
(Introduction) My father, Gordon Jones, was named after George Gordon Crawford, President of the Birmingham heavy industry behemoth the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company (TCI).
Thursday nights were busy under Highway 280's Cahaba River Bridge, on the outskirts of the city of Birmingham.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I am a more complete person for it. and maybe the world is a slightly better place too.
"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."--Dust jacket.
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