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Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story
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Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story

Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher: New York : Harper, [1958]
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : English : [1st ed.]View all editions and formats
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This book 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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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Stride toward freedom.
New York : Harper, [1958]
(OCoLC)558818060
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Martin Luther King, Jr.
OCLC Number: 485639
Description: 230 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Return to the South --
Montgomery before the protest --
The decisive arrest --
The day of days, December 5 --
The movement gathers momentum --
Pilgrimage to nonviolence --
Methods of the opposition --
The violence of desperate men --
Desegregation at last --
Montgomery today --
Where do we go from here?
Responsibility: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Abstract:

This book 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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