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Genre/Form: | collective biographies Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, 1912-1992. Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1987 (OCoLC)1085905474 |
Named Person: | Jo Ann Gibson Robinson; Jo Ann Gibson Robinson; Jo Ann Gibson Robinson |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson; David J Garrow |
ISBN: | 0870495240 9780870495243 0870495275 9780870495274 |
OCLC Number: | 14241617 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xv, 190 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The Origin of the Trouble -- The Boycott Begins -- Negotiations -- The Continuing Boycott -- White Reactions to the Boycott -- The Get-Tough Policy -- The Legal Battle -- Grand Jury Report, Arrest, Trial, and Verdict -- The Aftermath. |
Responsibility: | edited, with a foreword, by David J. Garrow. |
Abstract:
An autobiographical account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56, focusing on the role of the Women's Political Council in the successful protest by African Americans against segregation in the city's public transportation system.
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- Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.
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