Comic Book: Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story
date: label: Date made
content: 1957
name: label: author; depicted
content: King, Jr., Martin Luther
label: publisher
content: Fellowship of Reconciliation
label: maker
content: Fellowship of Reconciliation
label: maker
content: King, Jr., Martin Luther
notes: label: Description
content: <I>Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story</I> (By Martin Luther King Jr. in collaboration with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1957), 16 pgs.
label: Description
content: In 1960, one of four college students who participated in the first sit-in at the segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, credited his strength of resolve to this difficult find and dangerous to possess comic book, which taught methods of nonviolence. The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), sold over 250,000 copies of the comic book. FOR was founded in 1914 at an ecumenical conference in Switzerland of Christians seeking to prevent the outbreak of war in Europe. Following the famed Montgomery bus boycott, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. collaborated frequently with the organization in pursuit of racial equity and desegregation in the United States. Today, this interfaith organization has membership in 40 countries representing Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Moslems, and individuals of no formal religious affiliation devoted to peaceful reconciliation worldwide. This comic book was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1991 by Reverend Edwin King, who was also an activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
label: Subject
content: Christianity
label: Subject
content: Baptists
label: Subject
content: Clergy
label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: Pacifism
label: Subject
content: Blacks
label: Subject
content: African American
label: related event
content: Greensboro Sit-in
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
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content: Religion
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0595.03
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0595.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0595
label: catalog number
content: 1988.595.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book, Comic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: lithograph (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in; 26.67 cm x 17.145 cm