Bombingham - Softcover

"Grooms reimagines one of the most shattering episodes in American history, the infamous 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church."
--Essence

"Bombingham is a considerable achievement . . . [that marks] the emergence of a brave and promising talent."
--The Washington Post

"Too many of our younger generation know nothing about the struggle, the sacrifices, the dying of our people during those demonstrations of the fifties and the sixties. And older people too should be reminded, so that they'll never forget. . . . [Bombingham] is about a subject and a time we should never forget."
--ERNEST GAINES
Author of A Lesson Before Dying

A soldier in Vietnam becomes sucked into the Civil Rights movement through a letter written home to the parents of a friend killed in Birmingham's early 1960s wave of racially motivated violence. Reprint.