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

Kendrick, Stephen, 1954- (author.). Kendrick, Paul, 1983- (author.).

Summary:

"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

Record details

ISBN: 9781250155702
ISBN: 1250155703
Physical Description: 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"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.