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

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\u27s Political Council (WPC) and details the WPC\u27s plans to engineer a boycott months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks