KING JR., Martin Luther.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
New York: Harper & Brothers , 1958.
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"Nonviolence is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil": First Edition of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story; lengthily Inscribed by Martin Luther King, Jr.
First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, "To Sarah G. Harvey: Whose genuine goodwill, broad humanitarian concern, and unswerving devotion to the cause of peace and brotherhood will be an inspiration to all who know her Martin Luther King Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First printings are uncommon signed or inscribed.
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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