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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

Jones, Doug

Paperback

Black American HistoryGeneral LawTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 1250353815
ISBN13: 9781250353818
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. 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 US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002, representing the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones himself went on to win election as Alabama's first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore.

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