Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "e;the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of non-violence, 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."e;On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bu...