Speak truth to power [[electronic resource] ] : the story of Charles Patrick, a civil rights pioneer / / Mignette Y. Patrick Dorsey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784901903321
• Autore: Dorsey Mignette Y. Patrick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010
• ISBN: 0-8173-8266-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (149 p.)
• Collana: Fire ant books
• Disciplina: 323.1196/0730761781
• Soggetti: African Americans - Civil rights - Alabama - Birmingham - History - 20th century; African Americans - Alabama - Birmingham; Birmingham (Ala.) Race relations; Birmingham (Ala.) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A nigger defined -- The beating goes on -- The accused is the accuser -- Press attack on the devil's department -- Citizen soldiers aim and write -- The wheel stops turning -- Attorney tango: a lively shuffle -- Battle of the board -- Much ado 'bout civil rights -- Truth to power--a movement missed.
• Sommario/riassunto: On December 11, 1954, Charles Patrick drove to downtown Birmingham to buy a Boy Scout uniform for his son. Christmas traffic around the downtown department stores was heavy, and Patrick circled unsuccessfully until at last a streetside spot opened up and he began to pull in. As he did so, he was cut off by a woman who ordered him out of the way, as she was the wife of a city police officer. Patrick pulled away, remarking, "Ma'am, he doesn't own the streets of Birmingham." Normal low-level urban hassle? Not in 1954 Birmingham, when the woman was white and Pa