Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights Audiobook (Free)

“For 40 years, justice had opted undone in the brutal murder of four girls in the Sixteenth Road Baptist Church…Doug Jones said no more. Justice had to be performed. Those young girls deserved it. Their own families deserved it. The city needed it. It got courage, dedication, and persistence. And-maybe the majority of all-heart.” – Former Vice Chief executive Joe Biden

The program is read by the author.

The story of the decades-long fight to create justice towards the victims from the 16th Street Baptist about Twisting Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones’ prosecution of the last living bombers.

On Sept 15, 1963, the 16th Road Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast wiped out four girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan associates. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical proof, and pervasive racial prejudice the situation was closed without any indictments.

But as Martin Luther Ruler, Jr. famously portrayed it, ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, nonetheless it bends toward justice.’ Years afterwards, Alabama Attorney General William Baxley reopened the situation, ultimately convicting among the bombers in 1977. Another believe passed on in 1994, and US Lawyer Doug Jones attempted and convicted the final two in 2001 and 2002, representing the modification of the outrageous miscarriage of justice almost forty years in the making. Jones himself continued to win election as Alabama’s 1st Democratic Senator since 1992 within a dramatic competition against Republican challenger Roy Moore.

Bending Toward Justice is a dramatic and compelling accounts of an integral moment inside our long country wide struggle for equality, relayed by an writer who played a major role in these events. A distinguished function of legal and personal background, this audiobook can be destined to take its place alongside various other canonical civil rights histories.