Please read: "The Thunder of Angels

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The Mongomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow", by Donnie Willimas with Wayne Greenhaw.

This book is just great in exposing those months after Decemeber 5, 1955 when Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat, where the young Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rises to the occassion with the request of the almost forgetten E.D. Nixon who never gave up that one day the Blacks would indeed be able to live justly under the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, most of the rednecks who were in the KKK still wish things were the same and that they had won the Civil War.

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From Booklist
Williams and Greenhaw reveal the depth of involvement of ordinary black folks in the Montgomery bus boycott and their brave resistance to Jim Crow, far beyond that which is commonly known. He recalls the many extraordinary blacks and whites of the South who rose above the required expectations and limitations of social conventions and played crucial roles in the formation of the modern civil rights movement. Although popular culture highlights the role of Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, Williams (who inherited the bus made famous by Parks and later donated it to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan) and Greenhaw expose the reader to lesser-known figures: the Pullman porter and organizer E. D. Nixon, who provided the organization surrounding Parks' resistance; Fred D. Gray, a minister and lawyer who played critical roles in the boycott; and Virginia and Clifford Durr, a white couple who provided discreet support. This book brings to life the boycott that catapulted the nation into the civil rights era, portraying the personal sacrifices and heroism of ordinary people. Vernon Ford
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