Stride Toward Freedom

King described his book as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth." It traces the phenomenal journey of a community, and shows how the 26-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world.