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050 4 $aKF373.F56$bH39 1996
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100 1 $aHayman, John,$d1929-1999.
245 10 $aBitter harvest :$bRichmond Flowers and the civil rights revolution /$cJohn Hayman ; with a foreword by President Jimmy Carter.
260 $aMontgomery, Ala. :$bBlack Belt,$c©1996.
300 $a350 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 336-341) and index.
505 0 $aAntecedents : the evolution of race relations and politics in the post-civil war South -- Birth and background. November 11, 1918 ; Family ; Dothan and the Wiregrass ; Politics and race in Alabama at Flower's birth -- Growing up the right way -- through good times and bad. Childhood ; Depression and New Deal -- High school ; College in the late thirties ; Accident and war ; Civil rights between the wars -- Maturing to serious pursuits. World War II ; Army ; Mary ; Back to Dothan and to law school ; In and out of law practice ; Equal rights at mid-century -- A political career begins as civil rights takes center stage. Folsom and Flowers win in '54 ; A young senator does big things ; Reflections on Jim Folsom ; The Montgomery bus boycott ; Reaction rules the day ; Richmond tries for attorney general -- Four years of campaigning while civil rights action increases. Between campaigns ; The Patterson administration ; Civil rights during the Patterson years ; The freedom rides : violence shakes Alabama ; The second campaign for attorney general ; The 1962 election -- Strange bedfellows : governor and attorney general on a collision course. Attorney general at last ; Birmingham and bull ; Selma becomes a national crusade ; The hard fight for justice ; Reflections on George Wallace ; Four turbulent years end -- Vengeance wreaked. Beaten by a dime store clerk ; Indictment and trial ; Appeal ; A questions of justice ; Prison -- After the storm. building a new life -- Epilogue.
520 $aAs Attorney General of Alabama in the 1960s, Flowers fought bitterly against Governor George Wallace and segregation.
600 10 $aFlowers, Richmond,$d1918-2007.
650 0 $aPoliticians$zAlabama$vBiography.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zAlabama$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aAlabama$xPolitics and government$y1951-
651 0 $aAlabama$xRace relations.
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