MLK 50: Read The Comic That Helped Inspire A Movement

In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement was gaining strength throughout the country, the peace organization The Fellowship of Reconciliation saw the need to promote their philosophy of nonviolent resistance to as many people as possible. To accomplish this, they used one of the most accessible formats of the day – the comic book – to tell the story of the successful bus boycotts by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, and the man who helped inspire them.

April 4, 2018 marks the 50 years since Martin Luther King's assassination. Collectively, as we remember the legacy of King and the reason for his absence, PREVIEWSworld wanted to provide comic readers with another opportunity to read Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (below). The following comic was handed out at churches and nonviolence workshops and was the inspiration for many figures in the Civil Rights Movement. We present it in its entirety.