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Daybreak of freedom

by Stewart Burns

SourcesHistoryRace relationsCivil rightsAfrican AmericansSegregation in transportationMontgomery (ala.), race relationsAfrican americans, civil rights

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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