<I>Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1958
name: label: Written by
content: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
label: Published by
content: Harper & Brothers, American, 1817 - 1962
label: Subject of
content: Rosa Parks, American, 1913 - 2005
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: 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. He is wearing a dark suit jacket, white dress shirt, and a dark tie with six bands of repeating white patterns. The jacket spine is divided in red and blue fields divided by a thin black line. Printed in white text on the spine is the book title, author, and publisher’s name, [HARPER] at the bottom. The back of the jacket is white and features five promotional blurbs from the Atlanta Constitution, Bishop James Price, The Rev. John LaFarge, the Carolina Israelite, and the President of Morehouse College. The front and back covers are blue gray with black cloth spine tape. Embossed in silver on the front cover, in the bottom right corner, is the logo for Harper Books: a torch inside a double banded circle with the letters [H] and [B] printed on either side of the torch. The back cover is plain. Silver text printed on the black spine reads [KING] at the top, [Stride Toward FREEDOM / THE MONTGOMERY STORY] at the center, and [HARPER] at the bottom of the spine. The interior pages are white with black text. The book has 230 pages. Contents include a preface, eleven chapters, an appendix, and an index. Pages 65-68 and 165-168 feature glossy black-and-white photographs.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.21
objectType: label: Type
content: hardcover books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with book cloth (textile material) on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 7/16 × 5 7/8 × 7/8 in. (21.5 × 15 × 2.3 cm)