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The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers.
On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical evidence, and pervasive racial prejudice the case was closed without any indictments.
But as Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed it, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Years later, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the case, ultimately convicting one of the bombers in 1977. Another suspect passed away in 1994, and US Attorney Doug Jones tried and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002, representing the correction of an outrageous miscarriage of justice nearly forty years in the making. Jones himself went on to win election as Alabama’s first Democratic Senator since 1992 in a dramatic race against Republican challenger Roy Moore.
Bending Toward Justice is a dramatic and compulsively readable account of a key moment in our long national struggle for equality, related by an author who played a major role in these events. A distinguished work of legal and personal history, the book is destined to take its place as a canonical civil rights history.
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Bending Toward Justice The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights eBook Doug Jones Reviews
- Author and U. S. Senator from Alabama, Doug Jones, has written a riveting account of courtroom drama in the conviction of the surviving members responsible in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church which resulted in the death of four young girls. I was a college student at this time and well remember the embarrassment the state of Alabama and the United States advertised to the rest of the world regarding race relations that existed in our country.
The book contains the preparation and three trials that took place that resulted in the conviction of the surviving individuals and concludes with Doug Jones's run for the Senate in Alabama against Roy Moore.
The book reminds us of the bigotry that existed not only in Alabama but in the southern states as well along with the United States as a whole. I feel the lesson to be learned here is that we haven't come as far in equal rights for all as we'd like to think we have. In fact we are in danger of slipping backwards into those years in which bigotry held sway especially when it is preached from the high office of the President of the United States in which "Liberty and justice for all" are merely words at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance. - He used his personal experiences to present an insightful look at the divisions of our country both past and present.
By writing about past divisions, he warns of where current divisions are leading his state and our country.
I am proud to have him represent me in the Senate.
This a wake up call for all! - The writer tends to write more about himself. I was very disappointed that the majority of the pictures showed the writer and his family. There were no pictures of the victims, no picture of the church, no pictures of those who were affected by the blast. I am sure even at that time in history, journalists and photographers took photos of the scene and people.
- Alabama Senator Doug Jones helped to prosecute two of the bombers of the Birmingham 16th Street Church in 1963. While it took nearly 40 years, his team was able to bring justice for the 4 girls kilos that day. This book is part personal memoir and part legal history. It shows that homegrown terrorism is not new in this country, but also that good people can defeat evil. Great book!
- I lived through the time period treated in this book and found the telling of this story of justice ,finally accomplished, compelling. This is a very good book by a very fine man!
- I enjoyed the book
- Excellent writing by a straight thinker. Necessary summary of the trials of the bombers. Doug Jones as a candidate for president??
- I think this book could've been alot better. Jones is too self-serving for me.. this is almost more of a memoir than a history book. And contrary to the back cover, the book is NOT destined to become a classic of civil rights history.
The 1963 bombing of the 18th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama is something all of us should study, reflect on and learn from. There are plenty of other good books on it though than this one.
The author spends too much time talking about his own political journey and not enough on the history of the actual bombing.
An easy read, but could've been a whole lot better.
