We Didn’t Know it was History until after it Happened
by
Sandra K. Gill
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Gill asks why the “four little girls” killed in the bombing became part of the nation’s collective memory, while two black...