Stride Toward Freedom The Montgomery Story

Name: Stride Toward Freedom The Montgomery Story
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ISBN: 9780807000694

ISBN-10: 0807000698

ISBN-13: 9780807000694

Edition: 2010

Authors: Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King

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The classic story of nonviolent resistance in Americathe Montgomery bus boycottwritten by Martin Luther King, Jr.In early 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., set out to write about the Montgomery bus boycott. King described his book as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth.''Released the next year,Stride Toward Freedomwas lauded by the general public and literary critics, often labeled "must reading." Unavailable for almost a decade, King's unparalleled historical account of the first successful large-scale…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 1/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Clayborne Carson lives in Palo Alto, California.



Introduction



Preface



Return to the South



Montgomery Before the Protest



The Decisive Arrest



The Day of Days, December 5



The Movement Gathers Momentum



Pilgrimage to Nonviolence



Methods of the Opposition



The Violence of Desperate Men



Desegregation at Last



Montgomery Today



Where Do We Go from Here?


Appendix


Index