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Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (1987)

Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Edited by David J. Garrow. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. Chapter 2, 'The Boycott Begins,' pp. 53-76, read in the National Humanities Center excerpt: on Friday morning, December 2, 1955, she and two students left circulars at a meeting of Montgomery's Black clergy at Hilliard Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church.

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Record
robinson-memoir-montgomery-bus-boycott-1987
Type
book
Trust tier
A
Status
published

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Her own account, read in the National Humanities Center’s excerpt of Chapter 2 on 2026-09-23. Chapter 1 was not read.

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Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Published
1987
Accessed
2026-09-23

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