deaths of four little girls just before a Sunday church service in Birmingham, the assassinations of civil rights workers, black and white, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner and Medgar Evers, the confrontation on a bridge in Selma, Alabama. Those would not come until Jim Crow’s fitful last hours.
Jim Crow’s final hours when some of the most “most bold-faced terrors” (if it’s possible to talk about it in degrees) would happen - Jim Crow would not go down without a fight and brutal deaths caused by hatred
