There’s an adage that goes: “The best part of the meal is the company.” And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town.

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Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

That began to change on Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago next December — when one woman on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus decided she ... They elected a 26-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. — a ...

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the voice of the movement. In 1955, he served as the spokesman for the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1957, he was elected the ...

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starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This boycott, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was a turning point. It highlighted the injustices faced by African Americans. It also paved the way for more ...

Google Doodle celebrates the 96th birthday of renowned civil rights leader Martin Luther ... theology in 1955. King rose to prominence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956), sparked ...

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin ... King: A Life, spoke about the late leader, and noted that he didn’t have plans to become one when he joined the Montgomery Bus boycott in 1965.

brought Rosa Parks to Detroit to give a talk on the Montgomery Bus Boycott — against the wishes of UAW President Walter Reuther. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to onlookers as he leads the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in ...