Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I wanted to like this book better than I did. It is an important addition to books set in the Civil Rights era. But it just doesn't feel very compelling. The focus is on a series of events, so there isn't the identification with major characters and their doings and there isn't the suspense leading up to a single event. I am glad Huntsville escaped some of the more serious violence, but it just felt a bit detached to me.
That said, quite a few of my relatives live in the Huntsville area and it was interesting to be from that perspective.
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