Jarvis DeBerry: NOLA Times-Picayune: In 1955 all you had to say was Mississippi. In 1957, saying Arkansas would have sufficed. After April 4, 1968, one could wipe tears, shake his or her head and say Tennessee. But in 1963, the shorthand for horror and abominable crimes was Alabama. No explanation required. Thus the recording from the John Coltrane Quartet with the one-word title: Alabama. In the spring of 1963, officials in Birmingham unleashed their police dogs and water hoses on little children who were marching that citys streets for freedom. On September 15, Ku Klux Klansmen dynamited the church that had served as a launching pad for those civil rights campaigns. Killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that Sunday morning were four little girls who had just finished Sunday School and were preparing for that mornings worship: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. thanks Greg Tate.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:36:51 +0000
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