We will stand here till we die
Subtitle: freedom movement shakes America, shapes Martin Luther King Jr
By: Stewart Burns
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781483983516
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: African Americans; Civil rights; History; Civil rights movements; Social conditions; Social movements; Chronology; Race relations
Description: Burns sets the scene for the events of 1963, describing Martin Luther King's development from his debut on the national stage during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 through the lunch counter sit-ins, the freedom rides, Bayard Rustin's role in the development of King's views on nonviolence, the failures of the Albany movement, James Meredith's effort to enroll at the University of Mississippi, and the machinations and prevarications of the Kennedy White House on civil rights.
Notes: Civil rights movement chronology, 1954-1968 -- p. 175-183.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191).