Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: “The Memory You Choose”
Introduction: “It Was Like Slavery in Another Era”: Tuscaloosa, 1964
1. “The White Folks Are Going to Kill Him”: The Arrival of Reverend T. Y. Rogers
2. “God, Himself, Was the Author of Segregation”: The Rise of Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton
3. “The Publicity Is What Creates the Mayhem”: Policing and Chief William Marable
4. “No End to the Floggings and Murders”: The Cost of Protesting
5. “We Want Freedom Now”: Bloody Tuesday and the Sacking of First African Baptist Church
6. “You Can’t Do Nothing but Kill Me”: Fighting Back
7. “How Could There Be a God and Allow This to Happen?”: Testing the Civil Rights Act
8. “Sit Where Anybody Wants To”:  Boycotting Druid City Transit
9. “The Voices of Dissent Must Be Heard”: Legacies
Epilogue: “Just Give Us Fifty Years and We’ll Take It All Back”
A Note on the Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index