Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham - The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century

Three 18-year-old southerners start the day of March 25, 1931, not knowing that the events soon to occur in Scottsboro, Alabama, will lead them and the South on an inexorable journey of change. The life stories of Clarence Norris, Rosa Parks, and Waights Taylor are the book's consistent thread through the 20th century, the tragedy of the Scottsboro Boys and their trials, and other important civil rights moments in Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham.