You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America

by Paul Kix

Book Overview

From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign--ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.

It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250807697
• ISBN13: 9781250807694
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Celadon Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"