Signed book: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. First edition. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 230 pages. Signed neatly on the first free end page in ballpoint by Martin Luther King, Jr. Front pastedown features ownership notations. Autographic condition: very good to fine, with light toning and foxing to the signed page. Book condition: VG/VG-, with some losses to spine cloth, staining and moderate wear to dust jacket, and chips at the jacket's spine ends.
Published in 1958, King's first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, chronicles the planning, events, and aftermath of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance, the year-long Montgomery bus boycott. A comprehensive and insightful account, the book traces the journey of a community and highlighted King's transformative devotion to equality and non-violence. An outstanding signed volume from the Civil Rights icon.
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