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

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

Title remainder

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

Statement of responsibility

Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick

Title variation

• 9 days
• Race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election

Creator

• Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-

Contributor

• Kendrick, Paul, 1983-

Author

• Kendrick, Paul, 1983-
• Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-

Subject

• King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968
• King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968 -- Imprisonment
• Nixon, Richard M., (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
• Civil rights -- United States -- History
• Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
• Political campaigns -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Civil rights demonstrations -- Georgia | Atlanta -- History -- 20th century
• Kennedy, John F., (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

Language

eng

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"--
• 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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contains biographical information

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DLC

Dewey number

323.0973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E837.7

LC item number

.K46 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult