Contact: Gail Short205-934-8931/[email protected]
THE WORLD WATCHES THE SIXTEENTH STREET CHURCH BOMBING TRIAL
WHAT: The world is watching as jurors are selected for the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing trial in Birmingham, Ala. As the trial continues, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) social historian Jack E. Davis, Ph.D., can provide analysis about race relations and civil rights murders in the Deep South.
WHO: Davis specializes in the civil rights movement. He is editor of The Civil Rights Movement and is author of the upcoming book "Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930" by LSU Press. While most studies of race relations have focused on the black experience, Davis' book examines the emotional and cultural foundations of race in the white mind. "Race Against Time" looks at the racial attitudes of whites in Natchez, Miss., over seven decades.
Davis was quoted in the Dec. 13, 1998 Newsday article "For Justice: Murder in the South," which examined several civil rights era murders and the killers who went free.
CALL: Call Gail Short, UAB Media Relations, 205-934-8931 or e-mail at [email protected]
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