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You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live, ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America, Paul Kix

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You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live, ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America, Paul Kix

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

You have to be prepared to die before you can begin to live

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Paul Kix

Sub title

ten weeks in Birmingham that changed America

Summary

In You Have To Be Prepared To Die Before You Can Begin To Live, Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign?Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel. With page-turning prose that read like a thriller, Kix?s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C, as it was known?its specific history and its echoes sounding throughout our culture now. It?s about Where It All Began, for sure, but it?s also the key to understanding Where We Are Now and Where We Will Be. As the fight for equality continues on many fronts, Project C is crucial to our understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have

Table Of Contents

Genesis -- Project Confrontation -- The Good Friday test -- The writing on scraps of newsprint -- ". . . and a child shall lead them" -- D-Day and beyond -- "But for Birmingham . . ."

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