Stride Toward Freedom
By Martin Luther King Jr. & Clayborne Carson
- Release Date: 2010-01-01
- Genre: Social Science
Description
MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.
A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age.
Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world.
Reviews
Brothers and Sisters from Darkness
5By kc#30I had never read ‘Stride Toward Freedom’ until a few weeks ago. This book is extremely important for today’s chaotic and hate filled world. Loving our enemy and winning the war by never stooping to my enemy’s level. This message is timeless and shows the extreme lengths the Negro community in Montgomery, Alabama was willing to go to for common respect and dignity. As a middle class white man, I am more and more convinced that White America must stand with our colored brothers and sisters before America is a truly free nation.Will Read Over and Over Again
5By juliakapDeeply moving account of the Montgomery bus boycott and an awesome look into the philosophy of Dr. King. Must read.Read or listen to his Speeches.
1By NY_resource_schedulerEveryone is making money by dissecting is speeches out of his context. The collection used to be available. There was audio as well. Watering down his message by some greedy person selling the same thing for $3.00 times five or six books does not give you a decent perspective on KinPeace at move
5By Matt mic awsome Martha Luther king was a powerful man of God. He led meaning to his estates of the understanding of where we stand today as a one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all as well as say, race, color, gender, and all he wanted in his dream was to for all of us to come together is in one nation under God and that’s just what we’ve done 2023. Here we stand when united under God indivisible with liberty. Chess is from a man with a king rest in peaceService to our future generations
5By AlTheFlavorMartin3rdFor some few decades now; we’ve all strived, to stride forward for freedom. It’s a great time for now to embrace freedom and educate generations continuously for serving education in our future generations.Ending
4By BsnyuuuuukkThe ending was boring and long it just restated things said beforeCovers the Montgomery Bus Boycott
5By tambovskyaThe book is basically about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the events surrounding it. Good read, I like it.
