Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940-1975

Kimberley Mangun earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and is an associate professor at the University of Utah. Her award-winning book, A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936, inspired an Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary.

• List of Figures – Hank Klibanoff: Foreword – Preface: Alabama Has Lost a Giant – Acknowledgments – Magic City, Tragic City – Battle for the Ballot – An Act of Civil Disobedience – We Demand Equal Education – Free by ’63 – Violence Has Sullied Birmingham’s Magic Name – Continue the Journey of Freedom – Yet We Go on Fighting – Index.

“Emory O. Jackson at last has the biographer he has long deserved. As editor of the Birmingham World, he was first to cover fully the Montgomery Bus Boycott and he led the years-long effort to desegregate the University of Alabama. He also advocated voting rights and justice related to police violence and the bombing of churches, homes, and businesses. Through all the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement, Emory Jackson’s hand was forever present. Now his story is told by gifted historian Kimberley Mangun, who links his fight for equal rights to present-day issues and topics including voter disenfranchisement, officer-involved shootings, and #BlackLivesMatter.”—E. Culpepper Clark, Dean and Professor Emeritus, the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia; Author of The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at the University of Alabama, a Notable Book Selection by The New York Times Book Review