Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election

By Stephen Kendrick, Paul Kendrick

Categories: History

Stephen and Paul Kendrick's 2021 history of the nine days in October 1960 after Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Georgia, and how the effort to free him shaped the presidential election.

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• Barack Obama: “I want to share this inspiring book about the events leading up to the 1960 election, from Dr. King's imprisonment to student activism in Atlanta to JFK's campaign. It's a story we can all learn from—a story of overlooked heroes and the power each of us has to create change.”