Civil Rights Book Author Paul Kix Latest of 530 Plus to Research Book at BPL Archives
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| Author Paul Kix new book is among over 530 researched at the BPL Archives Department. |
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| Author Paul Kix |
Birmingham, Ala. - Each year, more books are published using the collections of the Birmingham Public Library Archives. Since the BPL Archives was founded in 1976, more than 530 books (including five winners of the Pulitzer Prize) have been researched in the department. The most recent of these books is You Have to be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live by Paul Kix (Celadon Books).
Coming during the 60th anniversary of Birmingham’s 1963 civil rights demonstrations, publisher Celadon Books describes the book this way:
"In You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live, Paul Kix takes the reader behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time, he also provides a window into the minds of the four extraordinary men who led the campaign—Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, and James Bevel.
With page-turning prose that read like a thriller, Kix’s book is the first to zero in on the ten weeks of Project C, as it was known—its specific history and its echoes sounding throughout our culture now. It’s about Where It All Began, for sure, but it’s also the key to understanding Where We Are Now and Where We Will Be. As the fight for equality continues on many fronts, Project C is crucial to our understanding of our own time and the impact that strategic activism can have."
By Jim Baggett| Department Head, BPL Archives Department
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