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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
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3 Reddit comments about Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution:

u/Letchworth · 2 pointsr/Birmingham

http://www.amazon.com/Carry-Home-Birmingham-Climactic-Revolution/dp/1476709513

Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter. Worth every second of your time.

u/BestGarbagePerson · 1 pointr/news

>Thankyou. That's a really interesting perspective, and a big difference from the usual viewpoints I see.

Honestly this was a refreshing surprise thank you. After coming home from the beach I had a mailbox full of insulting replies.

You would do well to understand that most Americans have this view. It is ingrained in us. Just most are not so able to articulate it with historical context (Because our schools are atrocious.)

>Any favourite books?

Book wise here for black history:

https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation-ebook/dp/B01LVU8UUT

And here:

https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Devil-Dixie-Activists-Alabama/dp/1613734166

And here:

https://www.amazon.com/Carry-Home-Birmingham-Climactic-Revolution/dp/1476709513

And here:

https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Massacre-Destruction-Tulsa-Race/dp/0312302479

For further reading google:

Mass lynching in the US

KKK and Black Activism

MLK and CC permit (he tried to arm himself before he was assassinated and was denied)

Race Riots during ww2 (even in Northern states)

A riveting Criminal Podcast (one of my favorite podcasts) about a KKK counter-protest where the KKK showed up and killed people:

http://wunc.org/post/criminal-birth-massacre#stream/0

These violent clashes were ALL OVER, even in the North. The history of the Civil Rights in the US has been largely whitewashed as if it was all a bunch of people peacefully holding hands. What happened recently here in the US in Charleston was how it used to be daily. Blacks too were denied the right to bear arms even to the end of the era. In fact the right to bear arms was first mentioned as an individual right (citizen's right) in the Supreme Court when it denied all Black people from this right in Dred Scott vs. Stanford in 1856. Blacks were not citizens therefore they had no right to keep and bear arms for their individual safety.

And regarding Labor Rights:

http://www.signature-reads.com/2017/09/history-movement-labor-day-books-read-now/

This list looks actually perfect. I've read Death in Haymarket and The Jungle by Upton Singclair. From Synopsis alone, I recommend "The Devil Is Here in These Hills" about the Blair Mountain Massacre (which is insane btw) and "Meet You In Hell" about another really bloody labor battle.

>The police are way, way less likely to kill you here too; they're not primed to assume everything is a gun and everyone's carrying, and they aren't as militarized

They used to be militarized, but bloody sunday caused the entire UK populace to rise up and disarm their police (even after strict gun laws - this had to be a separate thing), which was a good thing and I'm proud of you guys for that. It would never happen here though in the US.

I also HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the Wild Wild West documentary on Netflix if you can get it. It's about a violent hindu cult that takes over a tiny tiny town in Oregon (near where I live about 2 hours away), and basically becomes the police. Although I warn you the doc takes an overly sympathetic view to the cultists and does not show how aboslutely fucked they were from the beginning.

>I'll keep your thoughts in mind, thanks again for sharing. It doesn't make me any more inclined to own a gun where I live. But it helps me see some more understandable reasons why some people want them.

Actually I appreciate that. TBH, reading our comments again I feel the need to explain to you about how totally wrong the idea of "random (home) searches" are.

That's a violation of the 4th amendment in the US. A massive violation of due process.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourth_amendment

For that to be made possible do you understand that a kind of martial law would have to be declared over the whole country?

Also you should know too that the people who would be harassed in these circumstances would primarily be the poor and minorities, political enemies of the state (of whomever is in power), sex workers and immigrants.

Rich peoples/politicians mansions will never be searched.

You should also know that part of what lead to the rise of Nazism in Germany was a bloody massacre of communist/socialists that was associated with orders like these - random searches (read excuses to trash, steal, rape and abuse) of suspected communists in Berlin (for banned weapons). This lead to a massive protest, which lead to a massive massacre, which lead to radicalism spreading, which lead to the Nazis being popular.

>FTFY

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FTFY

Double meaning actually. Sorry lol : ).

u/drippyredstuff · 1 pointr/todayilearned

See Dianne McWhorter's excellent (Pulitzer Prize-winning) book, [Carry Me Home] (http://www.amazon.com/Carry-Home-Birmingham-Climactic-Revolution/dp/1476709513). In it she give a detailed account of the civil rights training that went on at the Highlander Center, Parks included.