Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

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Martin Luther King, Jr. describedStride Towards Freedomas: 'the chronicleof 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of non-violence, wholearned to ?ght for their rights with the weapon of love, and whom in theprocess, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth.'On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seatto a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rallied by the youngpreacher and activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the black community of Montgomery organised a historic boycott of the bus services, rising up together toprotest at racial segregation. This was the ?rst large-scale, non-violent resistance of its kind in America and marked the beginning of a national Civil Rights move-ment based on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s principles.At the time Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 26 years old and the pastor of aBaptist church in Montgomery, within a year he was a national ?gure and leader of the Civil Rights movement. One of the greatest orators in American history,remembered for his 'I Have a Dream' speech, Martin Luther King was awarded theNobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated on April 4th, 1968.