Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story

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This was a comic that was released in 1957. It served as an inspiration for numerous civil rights advocates including Congressman John Lewis (who read it as a teenager) and protest movements across the Southern United States. More recently thousands of copies were distributed to democracy activists in the Middle East; Lewis attributed credited this comic as being one of the contributing elements in the 2011 Egyptian protests. History.com has more extensive write-up here.

As this has been made free from places like Comicsbeat and the Civil Rights Movement Archive I am posting the whole thing.

Comments

[giraffesforever]

Thanks for posting, I enjoyed reading this. I particularly liked that it's mostly not about MLK. So much of the story we get these days is just one perfect man giving one perfect speech and everybody suddenly saying, "that guys right, let's not be racist anymore". It's nice to see reminders of the many other people important to the movement, and how much earlier and smaller it started, and how he did not spontaneously persuade everyone.

The Montgomery Method pages are both inspiring and something that I wonder if it could still work. "You have to try to understand and sympathize with him" and "Don't try to deal with everything wrong at once" stand out to me as uncommon ideas today. Have social justice movements intentionally left these ideas behind, either in favor of superior methods or simply as no longer workable in today's world, or did it happen organically and there could still be room for effective protests like these?

[superfangirl1]

I enjoy this. Thank you for sharing it.