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 on the first free end page in blue ballpoint, "Martin L. King, Jr., 407 Auburn Ave, Atlanta, Ga," the address of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Autographic condition: very good to fine, with soiling and staining to the signed page. Book condition: VG-/VG, with edgewear and rubbing to boards, partial splits and losses to spine cloth, and some minor dampstaining to boards and textblock; the jacket has a few small edge nicks and tears.
Throughout its long history, Ebenezer Baptist Church, located in Atlanta, Georgia, has been a spiritual home to many citizens of the 'Sweet Auburn' community. Its most famous member, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was baptized as a child in the church and, after giving a trial sermon to the congregation at Ebenezer at the age of 19, young Martin was ordained as a minister. In 1960 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. became a co-pastor of Ebenezer with his father, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., known as 'Daddy' King. MLK, Jr. remained in that position until his death in 1968. As a final farewell to his spiritual home Dr. King's funeral was held in the church.
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.
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