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King-Chalmers, a longtime Detroiter and civil rights advocate, died. She is featured in an iconic Life magazine photo getting blasted by a firehose.

For John Archibald, it began with silence. What he describes as “white silence.” The Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for Alabama Media Group writes of the deafening silence from the pulpits of white churches in his 320-page biographical memoir, “Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution.” Available on March 9, Archibald’s book tells of “an all-American white boy, son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the Civil Rights revolution and discovering the culpability of silence within the church,” accordin...