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The thunder of angels : the Montgomery bus boycott and the people who broke the back of Jim Crow / Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenhaw.
Title:
The thunder of angels : the Montgomery bus boycott and the people who broke the back of Jim Crow / Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenhaw.
ISBN:
9781556526411
Personal Author:
Williams, Donnie, 1953-
Publication Information:
Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, [2021]

©2006
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiii, 293 pages) : illustrations
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Summary:
Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott that began the modern civil rights movement. Draws on interviews and documents to describe the history of abuse on the city buses, the work of civil rights pioneers such as E.D. Nixon and Jo Ann Robinson, and the events of Martin Luther King Jr.'s trial.
Geographic Term:
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.

Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Subject Term:
African Americans -- Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery -- History 20th century.

Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery -- History 20th century.

African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery -- Biography.

Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery -- History 20th century.

Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery -- History 20th century.
Genre:
Electronic books
Added Author:
Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-
Electronic Access:
Mackin Educational Resources Click here to open
Interest grade level:
YA-Adult.
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