Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy

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Karen Gray Houston
Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review Press

Prior to more well-known acts of the Civil Rights movement, brothers Thomas and Fred Gray played integral parts in protests and boycotts that changed the nation's racial climate and opened doors for countless other African Americans. Journalist Karen Gray Houston's memoir is an ode to the work of her father and uncle.

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