he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the ...

King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott in Montgomery ... The legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Day was first ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., take a look back at the civil rights activist's incredible life and legacy in photos. Civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Jr. was known for ...

Parks worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Having worked ... she’d been a hated figure since the Montgomery bus boycott. During that action, they’d made menacing calls ...

Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of transport segregation in America. It also propelled Martin Luther King into the media spotlight. Look in more detail at the civil rights ...

MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Mineola Dozier Smith closed her eyes tightly and rocked back in her chair. Slowly, the images started coming back to her — the crowded bus, the hostile driver, the quiet ...

MARTIN LUTHER KING ... TO MONTGOMERY AFTER MARRYING, AND IT’S THERE THEY BECAME PIVOTAL FIGURES IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. KING WAS THRUST INTO THE SPOTLIGHT WITH THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- From the time he first emerged as a civil rights leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived with ... A month after blacks began a bus boycott, a midnight caller ...

King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while helping to lead the prolonged bus boycott ... History and Culture Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Civil Rights ...

Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of transport segregation in America. It also propelled Martin Luther King into the media spotlight. Look in more detail at the civil rights ...