Stride Toward Freedom
The Montgomery Story
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Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
First published in 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s account of the Montgomery bus boycott is a sobering and inspiring read. Dr. King famously led the 1955–1956 protests against the Alabama city’s segregated public transit policies, and he goes into great detail about the furious battle that galvanized the civil rights movement for years to come. The civil rights leader also shares personal stories that illuminate his own life as well as the complex social and political landscape of the South during the tumultuous end of the Jim Crow era. From the bombing of his home to his journey toward nonviolence to the city’s busing policy finally being declared unconstitutional, King lays it all out with a reporter’s eye for detail and his trademark passion for social justice. Stride Toward Freedom reminds us of how far we’ve come…and how far we still have to go.
