as leader of the Montgomery bus boycott. These were only the first few steps on King’s road as an interfaith leader. King deliberately made interfaith cooperation a hallmark of his movement both for civil rights and for peace, working with people like the gay Quaker Bayard ...
In January 1957, Ms. Baker went to Atlanta to attend a conference aimed at developing a new regional organization to build on the success of the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama. After a second conference in February, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was formed. In 1960, f...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was brought to life through the words of the bus driver (“I was only doing my job”), followed by the words of Rosa Parks (“I was tired of giving in”). That led to Catherine Dalton’sShe Stood for Freedom, featuring the mellow voice of mezzo-soprano Tea...
Selma MarchArm in arm, Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, leading the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 1965.(more) 2 of 2 Women's Strike Day, 1970Women's Strike Day march in Washington, D.C., for equal employment and educational op...