These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district—a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores family lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname "Dynamite Hill."

Due to his work, Shores' daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt. Twice, in 1963, Klan members bombed their home, sending Theodora to the hospital with a brain concussion and killing Tasso, the family's cocker spaniel. The family narrowly escaped a third bombing attempt on their home in the spring of 1965.

The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family's unfair suffering, but also of the Shores' overcoming. This family's sacrificial commitment, courage, determination, and triumph inspire us today through this story and the selfless service, work, and lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.

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Publisher

Zondervan

Year

2012

ISBN

9780310336235

Topic

Historia

Subtopic

Biografías históricas

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Foreword
Tribute: To Daddy
1 “Why, Daddy?”
2 The Bomb Blast
3 When Lightning Strikes
4 The Public Reacts to the Bombing
5 Lightning Strikes Twice
6 The Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
7 Our Father’s Early Years
8 The Early Practice
9 Standing Up to Be Counted
10 The Communist “Red” Scare
11 The Case That Changed Everything
12 The Rape
13 Family Life on First Street
14 The Fight to Equalize Salaries for Black Teachers
15 Working on the Railroad
16 The Continuing Voting Rights Battle: Mitchell v. Wright
17 Unfair Zoning Laws
18 Living under Jim Crow Laws
19 Helen Leaves Birmingham
20 Bull Connor Arrests Senator Taylor
21 The Problem with Segregated Schools: Brown v. Board of Education
22 The Perfect Storm
23 The Shortage of Black Schools
24 Miss Autherine Lucy and the University of Alabama
25 Riots Break Out on Campus
26 Montgomery’s Bus Boycott
27 Growing Up in Jim Crow Alabama
28 The Lillie Boman Case
29 The Year of Greatest Conflict: 1963, Birmingham
30 The Days the Children Marched
31 George Wallace Stands in the Schoolhouse Door
32 Frustration and Fury in Washington
33 Holidays after a Long Hot Summer
34 1965: Marching toward Freedom
35 Birmingham in 1968: Becoming a New City
36 Our Father’s Political Dreams Finally Come True
37 Arthur Davis Shores and the Chaotic 1968 Democratic Convention
38 Final Days
Epilogue 1 A Personal Memory
Epilogue 2 A Personal Memory
Appendix 1 Two Congressional Records Citing the Work of Arthur D. Shores
Appendix 2 Lifetime Awards, Honors, Services, and Accomplishments of Arthur D. Shores
Appendix 3 Copies of Important Letters to or from Arthur D. Shores
Sources
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Praise
Photographs
Copyright
About the Publisher
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