The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, David J. Garrow (Contribution by)Publish date:1987-05-22Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Univ Tennessee PressISBN-13:9780870495274ISBN-10:870495275UPC:9780870495274Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, WomenBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.51 x 6.08 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SC34HE41RD
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Histories of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 typically focus on Rose Parks, who refused to yield her bus seat to a white man, and on a young Martin Luther King Jr., who became the spokesman for the black community organization set up to pursue a boycott of Montgomery's segregated city buses. In an important revision of the traditional account, this extraordinary personal memoir reveals an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Univ Tennessee PressISBN-13:9780870495274ISBN-10:870495275UPC:9780870495274Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, WomenBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.51 x 6.08 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SC34HE41RD
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was professor of English at Alabama State College in Montgomery and a crucial figure in the early civil rights movement. David J. Garrow was a longtime professor of history and author of numerous books on civil rights. His book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. He is also author of...
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