Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story information
1957 comic book
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
Cover of Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
Publication information
Publisher
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Format
One-shot
Genre
non-fiction
Publication date
December1957
No. of issues
1
Main character(s)
Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King Rosa Parks Mahatma Gandhi
Creative team
Written by
Alfred Hassler and Benton Resnik
Artist(s)
Sy Barry
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery bus boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance.[1]
Although ignored by the mainstream comics industry, The Montgomery Story, written by Alfred Hassler and Benton Resnik and illustrated by Sy Barry, was widely distributed among civil rights groups, churches, and schools. It helped inspire nonviolent protest movements around the Southern United States, and later in Latin America, South Africa,[2] the Middle East, and elsewhere. Over 50 years after its initial publication, the comic inspired the best-selling, award-winning March trilogy by Georgia Congressman John Lewis.[1]
^ abBello. Grace. "A Comic Book for Social Justice: John Lewis," Publishers Weekly (July 19, 2012).
^Cite error: The named reference Aydin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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