Birmingham Sunday

By: Larry Dane Brimner

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Paperback | 27 September 2022

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48 Pages

Age
12 - 99

Grade
2+

Dimensions(cm)
25.2 x 27.8 x 0.8

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This award-winning nonfiction picture book focuses on Birmingham Sunday, September 15, 1963-a fateful day that played a significant part in the civil rights movement-and places the event in historical context

A Jane Addams Children's Honor Book . An NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book . A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year

Jane Addams Children's Honor Book
NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the Year

This nonfiction picture book focuses on Birmingham Sunday, a fateful day and significant part of the Civil Rights movement, and places it in historical context.

Racial bombings were so frequent in Birmingham, Alabama that it became known as "Bombingham." Until September 15, 1963, these attacks had been threatening but not deadly. On that Sunday morning, however, a blast in the 16th Street Baptist Church ripped through the exterior wall and claimed the lives of four girls. The church was the ideal target for segregationists, as it was the rallying place for Birmingham's African American community, Martin Luther King, Jr., using it as his "headquarters" when he was in town to further the cause of desegregation and equal rights. Rather than triggering paralyzing fear, the bombing was the definitive act that guaranteed passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation.

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