Dimensions
140 x 216 x 20mm
These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district-a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan.
Between 1948 and 1963, some 50 unsolved Klan bombings happened in Smithfield where the Shores lived, earning their neighborhood the nickname “Dynamite Hill.” Arthur Shores represented high-profile cases for the desegregation of Southern schools, the NAACP, and Dr. Martin Luther King-for whom Shores smuggled out of jail the scraps of paper that later became the famous “Letter From a Birmingham Jail”.
Due to his work, Shore’s daughter, Barbara, barely survived a kidnapping attempt and the family’s home was bombed by the KKK on three separate occasions.
The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill is an incredible story of a family’s unfair suffering but also of their overcoming, told today through this story and the selfless lives of Helen Shores Lee and Barbara Sylvia Shores.
