My Life with Charles Billups and Martin Luther King: Trauma and the Civil Rights Movement

by Rene Baker and Keith D. Miller

Charles Billups displayed pivotal leadership during the climax of the entire civil rights movement--Martin Luther King's campaign in Birmingham. But little of Billups' story has been told. Until now. In this book, Billups' daughter, Rene Billups Baker, relates his torture by the Ku Klux Klan. For the first time, she reveals his participation in King's key strategy sessions at the Gaston Motel. More fully than anyone else, Rene records her father's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732242704
• ISBN13: 9781732242708
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Helene R Baker
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"