[Review of] Jo Ann Robinson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoirs of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

Authors

Keith D. Miller
Elizabeth Vander Lei

Orginal Publication Date

1989

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

9

Issue

ess/vol9/iss1

First Page

75

Last Page

76

Abstract

Jo Ann Robinson, a major organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott, offers a new and convincing account of the origins of the protest that triggered the entire civil rights movement and launched the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1989