The Temple Bombing
by Melissa Fay Greene
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In October 1958, a synagogue in Atlanta was blown apart, a pivotal moment in this violent era. Set in the American South, this book examines the fight for racial equality which involved not only whites striking against blacks and blacks against whites, but Christians striking against Jews.Tags
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Incisive account of the 1958 attack on Atlanta's oldest synagogue, and the community's response. Brings to life an unsung hero of the civil rights movement.
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Melissa Fay Greene was a paralegal with Legal Services in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the events that make up her award-winning book Praying for Sheetrock (1991) took place. A recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Book Award finalist, Praying for Sheetrock is set in the early 1970s, when the struggle for civil show more rights that had been going on for years in other parts of the U.S. finally came to McIntosh County. Greene's next book, The Temple Bombing (1996) was the winner of the 1996 Southern Book Critics Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and was also a National Book Award finalist. It concerns the 1958 bombing of the Temple, the oldest synagogue in Atlanta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Temple Bombing
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Important places
- The Temple, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Epigraph
- The Gods we worship write their names on our faces, be sure of that. And a person will worship something, have no doubt of that either. One may think that tribute is paid in secret, in the dark recesses of his or her hear... (show all)t, but it is not. That which dominates imagination and thoughts will determine life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we are worshiping, for what we are worshiping we are becoming. - From Gates of Heaven
- Dedication
- In loving memory of my grandmother, Mary Pollock
And with love to my husband Don Samuel - First words
- Prologue: October 12, 1958, 3:37 a.m.: Fifty sticks of dynamite in the middle of the night blew apart the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue, which stood in pillared, domed majesty on a grassy h... (show all)ill above Peachtree Street.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I wish it had been more.
- Disambiguation notice
- 1996: The Temple bombing.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 305.892 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Semites
- LCC
- F294 .A89 .J536 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Georgia
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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