The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
- ISBN-10
- 1572337656
- ISBN-13
- 9781572337657
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Univ. of Tennessee Press
- Author
- Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Description
I took out the wpc membership roster and called the former president, Dr. Mary Fair Burks, then the Pierces, the Glasses, Mrs. Mary Cross, Mrs. Elizabeth Arrington, Mrs. Josie Lawrence, Mrs. Geraldine Nesbitt, Mrs. H. Councill Trenholm, ...
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- 1987
- 190 pages
- Paperback
- Univ. of Tennessee Press
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