{"product_id":"the-montgomery-bus-boycott-and-the-women-who-started-it-the-memoir-of-jo-ann-gibson-robinson-paperback","title":"The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJo Ann Gibson Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid J. Garrow\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistories 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 earlier and more important role played by a group of middle-class Black Montgomery women in creating the boycott. \u003cbr\u003e As head of the Women's Political Council, the most active and assertive black civic organization in the City, Jo Ann Robinson was centrally involved in planning for a boycott far in advance and was able to immediately initiate it the evening Rosa Parks was arrested. Robinson also took part in crucial but ultimately unsuccessful negotiations with White officials both before and during the protest. Her proud, moving narrative vividly portrays her colleagues in the struggle, their strategies and decisions, and evokes the complex emotional currents in Montgomery during the boycott. \u003cbr\u003e The Montgomery Bus Boycott ignited the civil rights movement and has always been vitally important in southern history and African American history. This seminal publication, named to \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's top ten list of books on the civil rights movement, has long been a milestone publication in understanding America's complicated racial history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJo Ann Gibson Robinson (1912-1992) was a crucial figure in the early civil rights movement. The youngest of twelve children, she was the first in her family to graduate college. Robinson was heavily involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott (and, indeed, had been verbally attacked by a White bus driver for sitting at the front of a bus in 1949). She taught at Alabama State College, Grambling College, and in the Los Angeles public school system. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David J. Garrow was a longtime professor of history and author of numerous books on civil rights. His book \u003ci\u003eBearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. He is also author of New York Times Bestseller \u003ci\u003eRising Star: The Making of Barack Obama\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.51 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978476552493,"sku":"9780870495274","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/7jRRlcUQtD9780870495274.webp?v=1775805379","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-montgomery-bus-boycott-and-the-women-who-started-it-the-memoir-of-jo-ann-gibson-robinson-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}