On October 12, 1958, the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, was blown open by fifty sticks of dynamite. The shock wave that reverberated across the nation that night jolted this city "too busy to hate," a booster's town scrambling to make itself the economic hum of what would become the New South. The explosion also shattered the illusions of a comfortable Reform Jewish congregation, for whom assimilation and acceptance had been...

A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner.

On October 23rd, 1958, 175 men walked into mine Number 2 in Springhill, Nova Scotia, but only 100 men walked out. Due to escaping gases, three levels of the mine were forced upward, trapping men against the ceiling and between beams. In this work, author Greene recovers the memories of the men who endured the disaster and those who watched it happen.