The Cradle Was Rocked; STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM: The Montgomery Story. By Martin Luther King Jr. Illustrated. 230 pp. New York: Harper & Bros. $2.95.

By Abel Plenn

Oct. 12, 1958

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THE year-long Negro protest that began in December, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., was without precedent, and in certain ways marked a turning point in the struggle against racial segregation in the South. The protest, aimed at ending discriminatory practices on the local buses, involved the city's entire Negro population of more than 50,000 men, women and children. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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