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Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march toward racial justice in the South, and the nation ? On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young Black girls. The very next day, a prominent white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. was scheduled to speak at a luncheon held by the Young Men?s Business Club of Birmingham. A well-regarded figure in the city?s legal and business establishment, Morgan had been mentioned frequently as a candidate for political office. To the shock of his longtime friends and associates, Morgan deviated from his planned remarks, instead using his platform to place the blame for the murder of the four young girls squarely on the shoulders of the city?s white middle-class establishment, those seated before him. ? As much as his stand was admired nationally, in Birmingham the results were destructive for him personally. Threats against his life and the