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Shattered Glass in Birmingham

My Family's Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964

By: Randall C. Jimerson

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Shattered Glass in Birmingham

My Family's Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964

By: Randall C. Jimerson

Shattered Glass in Birmingham traces the experiences of a white northern family during the climax of the civil rights movement in Alabama's largest city. Recounted primarily from Randall Jimerson's perspective as one of five children of Reverend Norman C. "Jim" Jimerson, executive director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations, the narrative explores the public and private impact of the civil rights struggle. Based on extensive archival research as well as oral histories, Shattered Glass in Birmingham offers the reader a ground-level view of prejudice, discrimination, violence, and courage. In 1961 the Alabama Council on Human Relations charged Rev. Jimerson with the critical task of improving communications and racial understanding between Alabama's black and white communities, employing him to travel extensively throughout the state to coordinate the activities of Human Relations chapters across Alabama. Along the way, he developed close working relationships with black and white ministers, educators, and businessmen and served as an effective bridge between the communities. Rev. Jimerson's success as a community activist was due largely to his ability to gain the trust of both white moderates and key figures in the civil rights movement: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. Lucius Pitts, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Rev. Andrew Young, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He represents the hundreds of people who worked behind the scenes to help achieve the goals of civil rights activists. After Klan members killed four young girls in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in September 1963, Rev. Jimerson preserved several pieces of stained glass that had blown out of the church's windows. Similarly, Shattered Glass in Birmingham offers us a fresh and important perspective on these climactic events, supplying one of the many fragments that make up the complex story of our nation's fight for civil liberties.

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LSU Press

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0807154385

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9780807154380

To Do Justice

The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

By: Randall C. Jimerson

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The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

By: Randall C. Jimerson

The biography "A Civil Rights Activist from Montgomery to Zambia: The Career of Reverend Robert E. Hughes" by Randall C Jimerson examines the inter-racial nature of civil rights and liberation movements in Alabama, Southern Rhodesia, and Zambia and connects them on a global scale through the life and career of Revered Robert E. Hughes"--

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University of Alabama Press

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0817321233

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9780817321239

The Private Civil War

Popular Thought During the Sectional Conflict

By: Randall C. Jimerson

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The Private Civil War

Popular Thought During the Sectional Conflict

By: Randall C. Jimerson

Historians have given much attention to the Civil War’s prominent players—its generals, politicians, and other public leaders—but they have devoted less attention to the common soldiers and civilians—the “plain folk”—who actively participated in the conflict. In his study of popular thought during the Civil War era, Randall C. Jimerson offers a grass-roots perspective on the war by examining the thoughts and ideas of these ordinary men and women. The Private Civil War derives much of its power from the author’s deft use of personal letters and diaries. Separated from home and family, virtually every soldier and many civilians wrote frequent and informative letters or recorded daily experiences and thoughts in journals. Jimerson has consulted a broad cross section of these documents, culling information from letters and diaries written by people from every state and from all social classes and military ranks. These documents, remarkable in many instances for their depth of feeling and eloquence, provide rich, detailed information about sectional perceptions and ideology as well as many private reflections.

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LSU Press

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0807119628

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9780807119624

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

By: Paul A. Cimbala,Randall M. Miller

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The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

By: Paul A. Cimbala,Randall M. Miller

With a new preface and updated historiographical essay. Based on recent scholarship and deep research in primary sources, especially the letters and diaries of “ordinary people,” The Northern Home Front during the Civil War is the first full narrative history and analysis of the northern home front in almost a quarter-century. It examines the mobilization, recruitment, management, politics, costs, and experience of war from the perspective of the home front, with special attention to the ways the war affected the ideas, identities, interests, and issues shaping people’s lives, and vice versa. The book looks closely at people’s responses to war’s demands, whether in supporting the Union cause or opposing it, and it measures the ways the war transformed society and economy or simply reconfirmed ideas and reinforced practices already underway. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War reveals, issues and concerns of emancipation, conscription, civil liberties, economic policies and practices, religion, party politics, war management, popular culture, and work were all part of what Lincoln rightly termed “a People’s Contest” and as much as the armies in the field determined the outcome of the nation’s ordeal by fire. As The Northern Home Front during the Civil War shows, understanding the experience of the women and men on the home front is essential to realizing Walt Whitman’s oft-quoted call to get “the real war” into the books.

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Fordham Univ Press

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153150194X

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9781531501945

Shattered Glass in Birmingham

My Family's Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964

By: Randall C. Jimerson

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My Family's Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964

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To Do Justice

The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

By: Randall C. Jimerson

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The Civil Rights Ministry of Reverend Robert E. Hughes

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University of Alabama Press

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The Private Civil War

Popular Thought During the Sectional Conflict

By: Randall C. Jimerson

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Popular Thought During the Sectional Conflict

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Shattered Glass in Birmingham

Shattered Glass in Birmingham

To Do Justice

To Do Justice

The Private Civil War

The Private Civil War

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

The Northern Home Front during the Civil War

Shattered Glass in Birmingham

Shattered Glass in Birmingham

To Do Justice

To Do Justice

The Private Civil War

The Private Civil War

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