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Martin Luther King Jr. chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott that began when Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. The book outlines King's nonviolent tactics, the community’s violent reprisals, and the eventual defeat of segregation on the city’s buses, marking a pivotal step in the civil rights movement.
First publish date: 1958
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Martin Luther King Jr.
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