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Book SynopsisPerhaps the most extensive book to date ever written on the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Let My People Go! may prove to be the encyclopedia of this pivotal event in American history. While other books written on the boycott primarily focus on the point of view of one key leader, this book discusses the boycott from several viewpoints and takes the reader on an historical journey through time, illustrating how God consistently intervened in the course of history to free His people from the evils of human injustice. Although historically based, this book is mostly inspirational, in that readers will feel inspired to activism. This work serves, in particular, to remind readers that the same God who delivered 50,000 African-American citizens of Montgomery out of the bondage of Jim Crow, is still in the business of delivering His people out of any circumstances. God still speaks to the forces of evil by willing, Let My People Go!
Trade ReviewEven 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 * 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 *
Table of ContentsPart 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
