Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (published 1958) is
Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic account of the 1955–1956
Montgomery bus boycott.[1] The book describes the conditions of African Americans living in
Alabama during the era, and chronicles the events and participants' planning and thoughts about the boycott and its aftermath.
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
In the chapter "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence", King outlined his understanding of
nonviolence, which seeks to win an opponent to friendship, rather than to humiliate or defeat him. The chapter draws from an address by Wofford, with Rustin and
Stanley Levison also providing guidance and ghostwriting.[2]