Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott sparked by Mrs. Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white male, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegrated city bus service.
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Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott sparked by Mrs. Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white male, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegrated city bus service.
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Good. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Slight shelf wear to boards, wear and small tears to dust jacket. All pages are intact and unmarked, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) First Edition. Early but not first printing of Martin Luther King's first book. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Copyright page with "K-L" indicating publication date of October-November 1958, three months after the first edition. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. First-issue dust jacket with "No. 8471A" on front and rear flaps. Dust jacket with price of $2.95 intact and complete. There is a 1/2" closed tear toward the upper right corner of the front of the dust jacket and a bit of chipping to the head and foot of the spine. Blue cloth boards. Tips of boards are very slightly bent with tiny bit of loss at the tip ends. All in all this is a very attractive copy of this high spot in the American Civil Rights Movement signed by its most famous leader. Subtitled "The Montgomery Story, " Stride Toward Freedom is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 's dramatic and inspiring account of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus strike that led to the first successful large-scale application of non-violent resistance to segregation in the United States. This was Dr. King's first book, published when he was only 29 years old, three years after he led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The book documents significant events of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement and is illustrated with a dozen black and white photographs, including one of Dr. King wearing a prison booking number around his neck, and an iconic photograph of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted. Runs 230pp. Bound in blue cloth boards and black cloth spine with silver lettering. According to Martin Luther King, Stride Toward Freedom, his memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott, is ''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'' (King, 9). In early 1957 numerous publishers began encouraging King to write a book about the boycott. By October of that year, he signed a contract with Harper & Brothers that was negotiated by his new literary agents, Joan Daves and Marie Rodell, and began work on the manuscript. In Stride Toward Freedom, King delineates racial conditions in Montgomery before, during, and after the bus boycott. He discusses the origin and significance of the boycott, the roles that residents, civic leaders, and community organizations played in organizing and sustaining the movement, and the reactions of white Montgomery officials and residents. According to King, before the boycott African Americans in Montgomery were victims of segregation and poverty, but after the boycott, when bus desegregation was achieved, they evidenced a new level of self-respect (King, 28; 187). King points out that most African Americans in Montgomery accepted a nonviolent approach because they trusted their leaders when they told them that nonviolence was the essence of active Christianity.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo 230pp. Black spine, blue boards. Silver titles on spine, silver title on front board. Mild wear to spine ends and corners. Previous owner's name on ffep in blue ink. Pages lightly age toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows fading to spine-titles still legible-and wear to spine ends, but jacket is intact, with original $2.95 price on front flap. Front panel slightly faded as well. King's 1958 book recounts the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a remarkable moment in the civil rights struggle, one with lessons and influence which continue to resonate today.
