Nine Days : : the Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and win the 1960 Election
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"In Trouble" -- "You Can't Lead from the Back" -- Day 1: Wednesday, October 19 -- Day 2: Thursday, October 20 -- Day 3: Friday, October 21 -- Day 4: Saturday, October 22 -- Day 5: Sunday, October 23 -- Day 6: Monday, October 24 -- Day 7: Tuesday, October 25 -- Day 8: Wednesday, October 26 -- Day 9: Thursday, October 27 -- Time to Detonate -- "It Was a Symphony" -- "They All Just Turned" -- Epilogue: The Dungeon Shook.
"A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"-- Provided by publisher.
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
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250155702
1250155703
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kendrick, Paul, 1983-
SUBJECTS
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968 -- Imprisonment.
Kennedy, John F. -- 1917-1963.
Nixon, Richard M. -- 1913-1994.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960.
Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.