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of contributions made to breaching Alabama's rigid racial walls, of days in jail, of marches and mass meetings and explosions heard, of offices sought, of sons killed in war, of ushers and musicians and food servers.

Steven Norris on the 26th page is then the first to mention the man most Americans associated with Birmingham than and give sole credit for the Birmingham movement today.

Norris writes "In jail with Martin Luther King."

"In jail with Martin Luther King!"

Here Steven Norris lists what must have been for him the significant summary of his involvement in the Birmingham campaign. He fellow authors have summed up their magic moments in other ways. They are the primary actors, only occasionally are they the acted-upon. It is they who "march(ed)" or "brought kids" or were "water(ed) down;" they were attacked by dogs or hosed by fireman or simply "spoke out" when speaking out was dangerous.

These first 25 pages - and the others which follow - filled with humble self-description and identification of movement makers from Birmingham and Alabama thirty 40 years ago - provide an excellent opportunity to examine the movement anew "from the bottom up", or in a more felicitous phrase, from the heart of the movement's mass.

That is part of what I, the slave's grandson