Too Proud to Bend: Journey of a Civil Rights Foot Soldier

by Nell Braxton Gibson

Most people have heard of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the bus, and listened to Martin Luther King Jr. inspire the masses with his declaration of "I have a dream." But pivotal as those moments were, they could not begin to reflect the horror of life in the segregated south for black Americans. They fail to capture the hostility, the intimidation, the ever-present dangers felt by so many during the 1950s and '60s; these same struggles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692257438
• ISBN13: 9780692257432
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Nell B. Gibson
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"