Hamilton Books
Pages: 368
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-3706-0 • Paperback • July 2007 • $85.99 • (£66.00)
Dr. Robert J. Walker is Assistant Professor in the College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Alabama State University. He is a member of the MIA and a volunteer math tutor at E.D. Nixon Elementary School.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 A Paradigm Shift
Chapter 5 Like Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Chapter 6 I Will Go Down with Thee Into Egypt
Chapter 7 The Pharaoh Who Knew Not Joseph
Chapter 8 The Plague of Death
Chapter 9 Leaving Egypt
Chapter 10 Drawn from the Water
Chapter 11 The Hard Taskmaster
Chapter 12 Choosing to Suffer Affliction
Chapter 13 At the Burning Bush
Chapter 14 Blood on the Door Post
Chapter 15 Let My People Go!
Chapter 16 Encamped in the Wilderness
Chapter 17 Hardened Their Hearts
Chapter 18 Trapped at the Red Sea
Chapter 19 With a Mighty Hand
Chapter 20 Crossing Over Jordan
Chapter 21 At the Promised Land
Chapter 22 The God Factor
Chapter 23 A Tribute to Rosa Parks
Chapter 24 Still Work to be Done
Chapter 25 A Tribute to Coretta Scott King
Chapter 26 A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
Part 27 Index
Even as a child in that first mass meeting, there was never any doubt in my mind that the boycott was led by God. In writing this book…Dr. Walker has beautifully documented a miraculous event that those of us who were directly involved in the boycott experienced firsthand-the 'Miracle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.'
— Frozenia Hall, active member of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and teenage boycott protester
...for those engrossed in the spirit of the movement and seeking coherence in today's challenges [this book] will be a delight, especially to the local civil rights groups that can remain around Montgomery and abroad...a book that captures the spirit of time...this book will place a period at the end of bus boycott history.
— Robert O. White, Humanities Professor, Alabama State University, Humanities Professor, Alabama State University; Montgomery Advertiser
A detailed narrative account of the boycott....Rich in detail.
— The Alabama Review, January 2009
While Walker is not the first to focus on the role of Christian faith in the bus boycott, his approach is innovative in that he posits God's presence at each stage of the protest. A particular strength of the work is its detailed reconstruction of the precipitating events that sparked the bus boycott. Walker offers biographical sketches of many of the well-known actors in the movement while also defining the importance of less celebrated figures.
— Monique Moultrie; The Journal of African American History, June 2009
Over the years, I have read many books about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But none have touched me so personally and inspired me more deeply than this book, Let My People Go! As you read it, I am sure you will be as inspired by it as I am. This book should be required reading for all young people.
— Dr. Mary F. Whitt, friend of Rosa Parks and President of the NAACP Youth Council during the Montgomery Bus Boycott
While Walker is not the first to focus on the role of Christian faith in the bus boycott, his approach is innovative in that he posits God's presence at each stage of the protest. A particular strength of the work is its detailed reconstruction of the precipitating events that sparked the bus boycott. Walker offers biographical sketches of many of the well-known actors in the movement while also defining the importance of less celebrated figures.
— Monique Moultrie; The Journal of African American History, June 2009