Bibliograph

Nine days, the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election, Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Type

Label

Nine days, the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election, Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Nine days

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1153508535

Responsibility statement

Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Sub title

the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election

Summary

Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in in Atlanta. An earlier, minor traffic ticket served as a pretext for keeping King locked up, and he was transfered to Reidsville, the notorious Georgia state prison where Black inmates worked on chain gangs overseen by violent white guards. An emerging and controversial civil rights leader was languishing behind bars, and the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon raced to decide whether, and how, to respond. The Kendricks show how these events changed the course of one of the closest elections in American history. -- adapted from jacket

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

9 daysRace to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election

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