KING JR., Martin Luther.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
"God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race": First Edition of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story; Signed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.
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Item Number: RRB-150588
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First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr." This book was signed at Coe College in October 1962, with a picture laid in of him there when he lectured there. From the library of a Civil Rights advocate, and professor at Drake University. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and with provenance.
Stride Toward Freedom is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand 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.''
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
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