1956 comics on Dr. Martin Luther King from US, S. America


Ethan Persoff says,

"Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story" was celebrated by black southern college students in the 50s as an inspiration -and instructional guide- for future civil rights demonstrations (continuing through the 60s), and helped galvanize the Passive Resistance method and the myth of MLK and Rosa Parks.

But it's also really nice looking with great illustrations, full of both inspiring and equally creepy pictures and a weird narrative full of the Klan, bigotry, dirty cops, explosions, death threats, Gandhi, and more.

We're offering this with the re-drawn Spanish version that was distributed throughout Mexico, Central and South America, of which there has only been mention of in academic books – but no one has ever offered visual proof of it existing. Well we found one in Uruguay. Here they both are now.

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