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Blurb: “Histories of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 typically focus on Rosa Parks, who refused to yield her bus seat to a white man, and on youthful 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 for the first time the earlier and more important role played by a group of middle-class black Montgomery women in creating the boycott.
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 initiating it the evening that Mrs.
Parks was arrested. Mrs. Robinson also took part in crucial but 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.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 196os, has always been vitally important in southern and black history. With the publication of this book, the boycott becomes a milestone in the history of American women as well.
The Author: Jo Ann Gibson Robinson was professor of English at Alabama State College in Montgomery. Now retired, she lives in Los Angeles, Cali-fornia. The Editor: David J. Garrow is associate professor of political science at the City College of New York and the City University Graduate Center. He is the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From
"Solo" to Memphis, and Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After first meeting Mrs. Robinson in 1984, Professor Garrow encouraged both her and the University of Tennessee Press to pursue publication of her important memoir.“