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Book

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

Call Number

  • 323.0973 K337 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Physical Description

352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Contents

  • "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 Just All Turned"
  • Epilogue: The Dungeon Shook.

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Added Authors

Paul Kendrick