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Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Contributor(s): Burns, Stewart (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0807846619     ISBN-13: 9780807846612
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $45.13  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1997
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 305.800
LCCN: 97007909
Lexile Measure: 1230(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.28" W x 9.17" L (1.20 lbs) 392 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - Alabama
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
 
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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 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Burns, Stewart: - Stewart Burns, historian and resident fellow at Stanford University and former editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, is coeditor of Birth of a New Age, 1955-1956, volume 3 of The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr., and author of Social Movements of the 1960s: Searching for Democracy.
 
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