Description
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.
Daybreak of Freedom reverberates with the voices of those closest to the bus boycott, ranging from King and his inner circle, to Jo Ann Robinson and other women leaders who started the protest, to the maids, cooks, and other 'foot soldiers' who carried out the struggle. With a deft narrative hand and editorial touch, Burns weaves their testimony into a riveting story that shows how events in Montgomery pushed the entire nation to keep faith with its stated principles.
Author: Stewart Burns
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/20/1997
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.28w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780807846612
ISBN10: 0807846619
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- History | United States | 20th Century
Daybreak of Freedom reverberates with the voices of those closest to the bus boycott, ranging from King and his inner circle, to Jo Ann Robinson and other women leaders who started the protest, to the maids, cooks, and other 'foot soldiers' who carried out the struggle. With a deft narrative hand and editorial touch, Burns weaves their testimony into a riveting story that shows how events in Montgomery pushed the entire nation to keep faith with its stated principles.
Author: Stewart Burns
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/20/1997
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.28w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780807846612
ISBN10: 0807846619
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- History | United States | 20th Century