This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday , as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement. Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Author(s): John M. (Associate Professor of History and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University of Alabama) Giggie Illustration(s): 49 halftones Number of pages: 384 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 29 Cover type: Hardback