02863cam a2200505 i 4500 1164898344 TxAuBib 20210726120000.0 200831s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020039720 9781250155702 hardback 1250155703 hardback 40030331439 (OCoLC)1153508535 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF TOH OCLCO FSP GL4 YDX IHX ILC GSU YUS OCLCQ SLPLM GZN UOK TxAuBib rda Kendrick, Stephen, 1954-, author. Nine days : the race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election / Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick. 9 days. Race to save Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and win the 1960 election. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. ©2021. 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 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. 20210726. King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-1968. King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-1968. Imprisonment. Kennedy, John F John Fitzgerald 1917-1963. Nixon, Richard M Richard Milhous 1913-1994. Presidents United States Election 1960. Political campaigns United States History 20th century. Civil rights demonstrations Georgia Atlanta History 20th century. Civil rights United States History. United States Politics and government 1953-1961. Kendrick, Paul, 1983-, author. TXKIP