Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

First edition (publ. Harper & Brothers)

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (published 1958) is Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic account of the 1955–56 Montgomery Bus Boycott.

King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom describes the conditions of African Americans living in Alabama during the era, and chronicles the events and participant's planning and thoughts about the boycott and its aftermath.

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External sources

Stanford University encyclopedia entry on the volume


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