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Bloody Tuesday : the untold story of the struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa
Title
Bloody Tuesday : the untold story of the struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa / John M. Giggie.
ISBN
9780197766668
0197766668
9780197766682
9780197766699
9780197766675
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Physical Description
xii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
"This book began in a barbershop. Reverend Thomas William "T.W." Linton, the spry then seventy-seven-year-old owner, was sharing memories from his sixty-year career while cutting my hair on a summer afternoon in Tuscaloosa in 2011. I had been coming to the shop since reading about him in the Tuscaloosa News about two years earlier. Rev. Linton loved to reminisce while he worked. When he was unhurried, he would take up to an hour before stashing his clippers and swinging the black barber's cape off my shoulders. With no one waiting in line that day, Rev. Linton had the time to focus on me and tell a story about an event that changed his life. I had heard snippets of it from him before but never the whole version"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Untold story of the struggle for civil rights in Tuscaloosa
Other formats
Online version: Giggie, John M. (John Michael), 1965- Bloody Tuesday New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 31, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The Memory You Choose"
"It Was Like Slavery from Another Era" : Tuscaloosa, 1964
"The White Folks Are Going to Kill Him" : The Arrival of Reverend T. Y. Rogers
"God, Himself, was the Author of Segregation" : The Rise of Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton
"The Publicity is What Creates the Mayhem" : The Making of Police Chief William Marable
"No End to the Floggings and Murders" : The Cost of Protesting
"We Want Freedom Now" : Bloody Tuesday and the Sacking of First African Baptist Church
"You Can't Do Nothing but Kill Me" : Fighting Back
"How Could There Be a God and Allow This to Happen?" : Testing the Civil Rights Act
"Sit Where Anybody Wants To" : Boycotting Druid City Transit
"The Voices of Dissent Must Be Heard" : Legacies
"Just Give Us Fifty Years and We'll Take It All Back."
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