Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham : We Didn't Know it was History until after it Happened

• Main Author: Gill, Sandra K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion and culture.; Historical sociology.; Ethnicity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319471365
• Physical Description: IX, 128 p. online resource.

This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Sandra Gill asks why the "four little girls" killed in the bombing became part of the nation's collective memory,...