You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America Kix Paul
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America Kix Paul From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign--the…
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America Kix Paul
From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign--the ten weeks that shaped not only the course of the Civil Rights Movement but the future of America.In May of 2020, as writer Paul Kix and his wife Sonya stared at the footage of George Floyd dying, they asked themselves a terrifying question. Their kids, who later saw the Floyd video, became fearful, and that fear, over the next few days, hardened into a cynicism about America. Could the same fate await their Black children?
These two images nearly 60 years apart echoed each other. To try to allay it, Kix showed his children another notorious image from half a century earlier: A photograph taken in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. In what ways could the one from Birmingham--of a Black teenager, a policeman, and his lunging German Shepherd--instruct us in how to live today, when faced with footage