As it has done over the past several years on this national holiday, Apple dedicated most of its homepage Monday to honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Along with a photo of King preaching at the pulpit, this quote by him urging a response to the Vietnam War appeared: “This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive education.”
And the Cupertino tech giant offered a book by King for free on Apple Books.
Apple honors MLK with homepage tribute and free book by the civil rights leader
“Today and every day, we honor his life and legacy of service,” Apple said under the quote from King on the homepage.
Underneath that, an Apple Books link invited visitors to read King’s book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, free of charge. He wrote it with Claiborne Carson and saw it published in 1958.
The publisher described it as “MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.”
Get King’s classic book about the Montgomery bus boycott for free
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King wrote the account just two years after the events described, which he took part in at age 28.
The book “tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during and after the boycott,” including witnessing economic injustice and discrimination, the publisher said. And it recounts his work on the boycott with activists like Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin.
