Julie Buckner Armstrong writes of Birmingham in Black and white
A civil rights scholar’s memoir of her girlhood in a city at a center of the movement’s history brings insight.
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A civil rights scholar’s memoir of her girlhood in a city at a center of the movement’s history brings insight.
The police knew who did it, but they weren't going to bring them to the bar of justice, so they just kept it quiet. they even gave these men nicknames. they called cherry "cherry bomb" and they called chambliss "dynamite bob." they knew who it were. >> the birmingham police department and the jefferson county sheriff's office, their investigation of the bombing was aimed at this crazy, nutty theory that the blacks themselves had set the bomb. being that they wanted to bomb their own church so that they'd bring sympathy to their cause. >> in 1963 and in 1981, black scapegoats were killed. victi...