{"product_id":"alabama-v-king-martin-luther-king-jr-and-the-criminal-trial-that-launched-the-civil-rights-movement-9781335475190","title":"Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe forgotten story of a criminal trial that brought national attention to a young defendant named Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as told by Fred D. Gray, Dr. King's lawyer and friend, along with \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After years of mistreatment on public buses, the African American community organized a bus boycott. Eighty-nine people were indicted for violating the city's anti-boycott statute. But rather than putting each of them on trial, the prosecutors chose to make an example of just one: twenty-seven-year-old minister Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This became the moment that transformed Dr. King into a national leader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFred D. Gray, then twenty-four years old and one of only two Black lawyers in Montgomery, had prepared with Rosa Parks for the bus moment and now became Dr. King's first defense lawyer. The stakes were huge. This was not just a trial about a state statute; this was an attempt to launch a movement in the face of an often violent effort by a Southern city fighting to preserve segregation. And it would set Gray on a path that would lead him to making an impassioned argument to the Supreme Court against segregation in Montgomery's public transit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the eve of the trial, Dr. King commented, \"When the history books are written in the future generations, the historians will pause and say, 'There lived a great people--a Black people--who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanover Square Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781335475190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.19d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Fisher, Dan Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41993227272373,"sku":"9781335475190","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f37cf1e1-df07-434d-98ae-e1cbd2dc67dc.jpg?v=1648524814","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alabama-v-king-martin-luther-king-jr-and-the-criminal-trial-that-launched-the-civil-rights-movement-9781335475190","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}