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In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried to board a city bus. Thomas Gray, who had played football with Hilliard when they were kids, was outraged by the unjustifiable shooting. Gray protested, eventually staging a major downtown march to register voters, and standing up to police brutality.

Five years later, he led another protest, this time against unjust treatment on the city's segregated buses. On the front lines of what became the Montgomery
bus boycott, Gray withstood threats and bombings alongside his brother, Fred D. Gray, the young lawyer who represented Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the rarely mentioned Claudette Colvin, a plaintiff in the case that forced Alabama to desegregate its buses.

An incredible story of family in the pivotal years of the civil rights movement, Daughter of the Boycott is the reflection of Thomas Gray's daughter, award-winning
broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston, on how her father's and uncle's selfless actions changed the nation's racial climate and opened doors for her and countless other African Americans.

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  • Title Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy
  • Author Karen Gray Houston
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lawrence Hill Books
  • ISBN 9781641603034 / 1641603038
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Segregation in transportation - Alabama -, Montgomery (Ala.) - Race relations - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019059100
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

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  • Booklist, 05/01/2020, Page 10
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2020, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2020, Page 123

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Karen Gray Houston is an award-winning broadcast journalist whose career has spanned more than four decades, including 20 years as a local news reporter for Washington, DC's WTTG-TV, Fox-5. She was a correspondent for NBC News covering the Reagan White House and the US Capitol, an anchor for the ABC Radio Network, as well as a reporter/anchor for WTOP News Radio in DC and WHDH-AM in Boston. She lives near Washington, DC.

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