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Chapter 1-2

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise. Zondervan, 2019.

In the opening section of The Color of Compromise, Tisby begins his narrative on September 15, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. At the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, preparations were underway for a "Youth Day" event. The celebration was interrupted by a bombing, which claimed the lives of four young Black girls. The bomb also damaged a stain-glassed window, depicting Jesus Christ surrounded by young children. Christ's face was blown out by the bomb.

After the bombing, the community was devastated and outraged. However, the response from Black and white citizens varied. Charles Morgan Jr., a white lawyer, discussed the bombing during his speech at an all-white Young Men's Business Club. When discussing the perpetrator, he declared, "We all did it" (14). Morgan argued that white citizens had failed to oppose...

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