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Stride Toward Freedom

The Montgomery Story

The Montgomery Story

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Introduction by Clayborne Carson

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    About Stride Toward Freedom

    MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.

    A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age.

    Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world.

    This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped one of them at random.

    About Stride Toward Freedom

    MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.

    A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age.

    Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world.

    This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped one of them at random.

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    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics | 20th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Beacon Press
    Jan 01, 2010 | 272 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8 | ISBN 9780807000694

    Category: Domestic Politics | 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Beacon Press
    Jan 01, 2010 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780807000700

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    Praise

    Martin Luther King’s early words return to us today with enormous power, as profoundly true, as wise and inspiring, now as when he wrote them fifty years ago.—Howard Zinn

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by Clayborne Carson
    Preface
    I Return to the South
    II Montgomery Before the Protest
    III The Decisive Arrest
    IV The Day of Days, December 5
    V The Movement Gathers Momentum
    VI Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
    VII Methods of the Opposition
    VIII The Violence of Desperate Men
    IX Desegregation at Last
    X Montgomery Today
    XI Where Do We Go from Here?
    Appendix
    Index

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