The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the civil rights
movement of the 1950s and 1960s, 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.
"This autobiographical account of the creation of the boycott is
the most important document on that highly significant episode
since Martin Luther King's own version, Stride Towards Freedom. I
feel certain that scholars and students will refer to this unique
historical source for generations to come."
--J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan
"This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus
Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer,
evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle. It
ought to be required reading for all Americans who value their
freedom and the contribution of black women to our history."
--Coretta Scott King
"A sharply remembered addition to the literature on what has become
an event of mythic proportions, and a sound primer for those
interested in community organizing. The author is scrupulously
honest, modest, and gives unsung heroes much deserved
praise."
--Kirkus
"This fascinating memoir provides new evidence on the origins and
sustaining force of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)."
--Anthony O. Edmonds, Library Journal
"There's no substitute for this intimate memoir; it provides an
immediacy and graphic intensity never before available."
--Marge Frantz, San Jose Mercury News
"This powerful memoir is a milestone in the history of that boycott
and in the American Civil Rights Movement."
--American History Illustrated
"This absorbing study may become a minor classic in the literature
of the Montgomery bus boycott. . . . Garrow correctly states in his
Foreword that this book is the most important participant-observer
account of the Montgomery protest available to students and
scholars of the black freedom movement. . . . This straightforward,
sensitive memoir is must reading for students of the civil rights
movement. It is a powerful commentary on how a woman and the group
she led rose up to throw off an injustice thrust upon them. When Jo
Ann Robinson and other Montgomery women decided no longer to play
the role of contented black Southerners, they gave blacks
everywhere renewed hope, and they helped to create a national
leader who took them closer to the promised land."
--Jimmie L. Franklin, The Alabama Review
"In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and
unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political
Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott
months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks. . . . The value of
this primary source will endure long after many best-selling,
secondary accounts of national politics during this period have
disappeared."
--Keith D. Miller and Elizabeth Vander Lei, Explorations in Sight
and Sound
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