The Thunder of Angels
Subtitle: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Published: October 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781556525902
Subjects: Human rights; Political activism; Social history; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Biography; United States - 20th Century; Alabama - Local History; Blacks In The U.S.; History; Social Science; Discrimination & Racism; United States - State & Local - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Lifest; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; African American civil rights workers; Montgomery; 20th century; African Americans; Alabama; Civil rights; Civil rights movements
First sentence: BY AUGUST 1950, nothing of any great significance had happened in Montgomery, Alabama, for more than eighty years.