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Daybreak of freedom : the Montgomery bus boycott

Author: Stewart Burns
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom, Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking documentary history of the boycott. Using an extraordinary  Read more...
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Burns, Stewart.
Daybreak of freedom.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1997
(OCoLC)606234307
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stewart Burns
ISBN: 0807823600 9780807823606 0807846619 9780807846612
OCLC Number: 36470249
Description: xvii, 359 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Edited by Stewart Burns.

Abstract:

"The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom, Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking documentary history of the boycott. Using an extraordinary array of more than one hundred original documents, he crafts a compelling and comprehensive account of this celebrated year-long protest of racial segregation."--BOOK JACKET.

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