Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue: Leaving Birmingham, Coming Home
Selected Chronology of Birmingham History
1. Center Street: A Snapshot of a Family and a City
2. Hettie and Ceola: “The History That’s Buried and Forgot”
3. God of the Forge: A Queer Lesson in Coloring outside the Lines
4. The Schoolhouse Door and the Steel Frame of Racism
5. “Just a Kid”: Sex, Salvation, and Unanswered Questions
6. The Transgender Warrior Jody Ford
7. “Call It Ignorance”: A 1963 Church Bombing, a 1977 Trial
8. The Great American Hamburger and the Whitewashing of Memory
9. Crazy Mary Ann and the Delusions People Take for Truth
10. Learning from Birmingham
11. “Just Doing My Job”: The Desegregation and Resegregation of Public Schools
12. Two Days along Village Creek
13. Beauty in Birmingham?: The Art Gardens of Lonnie Holley and Joe Minter
14. Hustling History
Acknowledgments
Notes
Further Reading and Viewing on Birmingham
Index