Zondervan publicity packet in the Rosa Parks Papers projects a 125,000-copy first printing and $75,000 marketing campaign for the January 1995 Quiet Strength launch — plans, not sales or spending results. December 1, 1994 release names intended national release January 30, 1995; November 4 release offers a free retailer merchandising kit for Black History Month.
Promotional copy calls the Montgomery bus boycott the “11-week bus boycott.” The King Institute dates it December 5, 1955–December 20, 1956 — a 13-month protest. Publisher promotional error, not a correction to Parks’s own account, and not evidence the boycott ended in early 1956.
Does not establish Parks wrote or approved the publisher’s copy. Primary: LOC mss859430223 images 5–8. Repo: quiet-strength-1994-launch-plan-boycott-error.
Craft: projected print run ≠ copies printed; marketing budget ≠ dollars spent; promotional chronology ≠ legal chronology; author custody of papers ≠ authorship of ad copy.
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