Happy Martin Luther King day

January 18th, 2010

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King’s birthday, January 15. It is one of four United States federal holidays to commemorate an individual person.

King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. He was assassinated in 1968.

Martin Luther King  Jr.  – Stride Toward Freedom
First Edition, Later Printing (H-T code) in Fine condition in slightly faded spine, rubbed, Near Fine dust-jacket.
A leader of his people tells “The Montgomery Story”, that began as a bus strike and ended in a Supreme Court decision and the first successful large-scale application of non-violent resistante to an American situation. (from the dust-jacket)

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