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These are difficult days for Birmingham, Ala. As two of the four men charged in a fatal 1963 church bombing are finally called to trial for their alleged crime, the city once known as "Bombingham" is forced to confront one of the most painful wounds of the civil rights...
...helped to ignite an already smoldering civil rights movement. But while jury selection will begin Monday in Blanton's trial, Cherry's case has been put on hold after presiding judge James Garrett ruled the defendant was unfit to stand trial. The judge's decision sparked debate in Birmingham and around the country - is Cherry getting a bye for his part in one of America's most horrific crimes...
...Professor Robert J. Goodwin teaches at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, and is an expert in criminal law and psychological testing. He spoke with TIME.com Monday...
Carry Me Home's main contribution is a massively detailed account of decades of unseemly collaboration between the genteel "Big Mules" who controlled Birmingham's industrial economy and the blue-collar terrorists whom they employed to do their dirty work against not only blacks but also unionists and anyone else who posed a threat to the established order. Rather than issue orders directly to Klan-connected thugs like Robert Chambliss, the organizer of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, the Big Mules used intermediaries like public-safety commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor. His brutal tactics produced the shocking television pictures that...
...current book, however, delves more deeply into the nuances of the movement era than Diane McWhorter's Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Movement (Simon & Schuster; 701 pages; $35). For McWhorter, this is not only history but also autobiography. A native of Birmingham, she was 10 in 1963, about the same age as the four little black girls who were blown to pieces in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. But, as she writes, she was a born and bred member of the city's white upper crust "growing...