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McKinstry, Carolyn Maull with Denise George.
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age
During the Civil Rights Movement.
Tyndale House. Feb. 2011. c.300p. ISBN 9781414336367. $17.99. AUTOBIOG
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL, in which
four girls were killed, was a tragic act reflecting the violence and
racism faced by African Americans in the Jim Crow South. While this
incident is often cited as the turning point in the struggle for
civil rights, the full story is often eclipsed by other well-known
stories in the Civil Rights Movement. McKinstry's autobiography is an
eyewitness account of the events of September 15, 1963 (she was in
the church at the time), and the ensuing horror and terror felt by so
many after the bombing. For 14-year-old Carolyn and many African
Americans, church was a safe haven that gave them a sense of hope and
protection (albeit temporary) from the harsh realities of racism. The
bombing and local apathetic response to it and other acts of
terrorism left McKinstry with a lingering depression fueled by
"survivor's guilt." Peppered with quotes and excerpts from the
speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., President Kennedy and the Bible,
this is an accessible, inspirational story of struggle, forgiveness,
and healing in the wake of hatred and delayed justice.
Verdict Recommended for school libraries as well as adults interested
in eyewitness memoirs framed with hope for the future.茅amela
Chambers, Chicago Pub. Schs.
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McMillian, John.
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of
Alternative Media in America.
Oxford Univ. Feb. 2011. c.336p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN
9780195319927. $27.95. COMM
In these days of the real-time blogosphere, when news can be made by
anyone with access to a computer and an Internet connection, the
heady days of the underground press of the 1960s may seem like
something from a distant past, a secretive and subversive society
powered by now-obsolete technologies. To some extent, this is true.
But as McMillian (coeditor, Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a
Century of American Radicalism) shows, this grassroots movement,
which gave birth to hundreds of pamphlets, flyers, small press
magazines, and underground newspapers, is the cradle from which the
blogosphere grew. He peels back layers of 1960s mythology to capture
the zeitgeist of a radical time when the youth of an era felt that
they had the power to change the world.
Verdict Meticulously researched and richly written with humor,
tragedy, and grace, this book will find a home on the shelves of
those interested in the New Left movement, free press, the youth
culture of the 1960s, and the history of the underground press in
America.茅eri Shiel, Westfield State Univ. Lib., MA
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