Bøker av Frank Sikora

Using the court records, FBI reports, oral interviews, and newspaper accounts, the author tells about the incident that fuelled the civil rights movement. One Sunday in September 1963, an intentionally planted cache of dynamite ripped through the walls of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and ended the lives of four young black girls.

When Frank Sikora's young daughter caught pneumonia in 1962, his wife vowed that would be their last winter in Ohio. The family moved down south, where they came to depend heavily upon extended family. Sikora's narration of his life with them provides a portrait of how resourceful southern women held their families together through trying times