Word: birmingham
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...with that, after 39 years, the case that has haunted Birmingham, Ala. and is credited with awakening the nation to the savagery of the civil rights struggle in the South finally came to an end. Former Ku Klux Klansman Cherry, 71, was found guilty of four counts of murder in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963 that killed four young girls...
Part two puts you right in the middle of all the most important civil rights actions from 1960 to 1965, culminating in the March on Washington. Anderson deftly moves from the terrifying street-level violence, such as the brutal Birmingham marches, into the backrooms where squabbling amongst competing organizations continually challenged the success of all their efforts. Several fascinating sequences imagine, with reasonable guesswork, the private conversations between JFK and MLK. Where more scholarly biographies could give us little of such moments, Anderson's novelistic approach allows us to feel the chemistry between these two indomitable, yet morally nuanced, characters...
...senate president, Birmingham is working with Swift and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran to close the budget...
...Birmingham says he would be willing to raise the income tax rate to 5.6 percent in order to solve the budget crisis—the only Democratic candidate...
...Birmingham seeks to further deconstruct his image as part of the state political machine by emphasizing his record of legislative leadership in core issues such as education, health care, housing and the environment...