What is it about?
It summarizes new scholarship on the 1963 Birmingham campaign.
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Why is it important?
Bass shows how the Letter from Birmingham Jail came to be written and published and how it was read in a different context to the time of its composition. McWhorter provides a rich portrait of the range of sentiment in white Birmingham. Together they show there is more behind the dogs and water cannon images,
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This page is a summary of: Tales of White Birmingham: The Letter and the Bomb, Reviews in American History, January 2002, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/rah.2002.0078.
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