Revolution Revisited: A Review of Ed Gilbreath's "Birmingham Revolution" | Urban Faith
Before King ever stepped to the podium in D.C., he was holed up in a
dirty jail cell in Birmingham, dubbed “Bombingham” and home to “Dynamite
Hill.” In a newly-released book, “Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Epic Challenge to the Church,”
Ed Gilbreath revisits this pivotal period and location of the movement,
and invites us to reflect with him on the titanic clash between
recalcitrant segregationists, resolute civil rights activists, and a
halting presidential administration that produced a seismic shift in the
public’s thinking and lay the groundwork for future victories. We need
this book: black America, particularly the black church;
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