TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kendrick,Stephen
AU  - Kendrick,Paul
TI  - Nine days: the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election 
SN  - 9781250155702
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - King, Martin Luther,
KW  - Kennedy, John F.
KW  - Nixon, Richard M.
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Election
KW  - 1960
KW  - Political campaigns
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights demonstrations
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Atlanta
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1953-1961
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; "In Trouble" --; "You Can't Lead from the Back" --; Day 1: Wednesday, October 19 --; Day 2: Thursday, October 20 --; Day 3: Friday, October 21 --; Day 4: Saturday, October 22 --; Day 5: Sunday, October 23 --; Day 6: Monday, October 24 --; Day 7: Tuesday, October 25 --; Day 8: Wednesday, October 26 --; Day 9: Thursday, October 27 --; Time to Detonate --; "It Was a Symphony" --; "They Just All Turned" --; Epilogue; The Dungeon Shook
N2  - "A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--; Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in in Atlanta. An earlier, minor traffic ticket served as a pretext for keeping King locked up, and he was transfered to Reidsville, the notorious Georgia state prison where Black inmates worked on chain gangs overseen by violent white guards. An emerging and controversial civil rights leader was languishing behind bars, and the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon raced to decide whether, and how, to respond. The Kendricks show how these events changed the course of one of the closest elections in American history. -- adapted from jacket
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