{"product_id":"9781603060103","title":"Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1961, the city’s potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident, a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the community than to divide it. To that end, the city created a biracial Human Relations Council which set about to quietly dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws and customs. This was such a novel notion in George Wallace’s Alabama that President Kennedy phoned with congratulations. The Council did not prevent all disorder in Anniston—there was one death and the usual threats, crossburnings, and a widely publicized beating of two black ministers—yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties. Author Phil Noble’s account is carefully researched but told from a personal viewpoint. It shows once again that the civil rights movement was not monolithic either for those who were in it or those who were opposed to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NewSouth, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037205938416,"sku":"9781603060103","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603060103_p0.jpg?v=1763815101","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603060103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}