Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A first edition, hardcover copy of Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with black cloth spine tape and deckle page edges on the elongated end. The background of the front of the dust jacket is divided into white, red, and blue bands from top to bottom, divided by thin, black lines. Red, black, and white text of varying sizes and fonts in the three bands reads [A leader of his people tells / The Montgomery Story] in the top band, [STRIDE / TOWARDS / FREEDOM] in the middle band, and [By / MARTIN / LUTHER / KING, Jr.] in the bottom band. In the bottom right corner is a cut out black-and-white photograph of King. King is depicted in three-quarters bust pose, looking towards the left edge of the book.

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