Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1958
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harper & Row, 1958) was featured by MIT Libraries as part of its “150 Years in the Stacks” online exhibit, 2011.
MIT Libraries: 150 Years in the Stacks
“150 Years in the Stacks” [is] a look at MIT through the prism of its library collections...a tour through the MIT Libraries’ open stacks and offsite storage areas, with a side trip to its closed-stack rare collections and an occasional glimpse into the vault...This online exhibit took shape during MIT’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2011. Each day for 150 days, we shared a single item from the Libraries’ collections, each item representing one of the years since MIT’s founding in 1861.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harper & Row, 1958) was the 98th of the 150 library collection items featured.
King’s first book...tells the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a milestone of the civil rights era. The event made a national leader of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a national icon of seamstress Rosa Parks.
On December 1, 1955, after an exhausting day at work, Parks was told to surrender her seat to a white male passenger. But history was about to be made: “Mrs. Parks quietly refused. The result was her arrest.”
The event made a national leader of Martin Luther King, Jr., and a national icon of seamstress Rosa Parks.
"Year 98 – 1958," 150 Years in the Stacks, MIT Libraries, 2011
