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The Institute cannot give permission to use or reproduce any of the writings, statements, or images of Martin Luther King, Jr. Please contact Intellectual Properties Management (IPM), the exclusive licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. at licensing@i-p-m.com or 404 526-8968. Screenshots are considered by the King Estate a For 382 days, almost the entire African American population of Montgomery, Alabama, including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride on segregated buses. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks played key roles in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a crucial event that showed how peaceful protests could lead to change in the fight for civil rights. Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, because she wouldn’t move for a white person on the bus. Rosa Parks, with Martin Luther King Jr. in the background, is pictured here soon after the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After earning his PhD at Boston University’s School of Theology, King had returned to the Deep South with his new bride, Coretta Scott, a college-educated, rural Alabama native. For 382 days, almost the entire African American population of Montgomery, Alabama, including leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, refused to ride on segregated buses. The protests The 381-day bus boycott also brought the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., into the spotlight as one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement. The event that triggered the boycott took place in Montgomery on December 1, 1955, after seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the NAACP, Quick Facts. FULL NAME: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks BORN: February 4, 1913 DIED: October 24, 2005 BIRTHPLACE: The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 was a defining moment in the American Civil Rights Movement. Triggered by the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, the 13-month protest campaign reshaped the struggle for racial equality and introduced the world to a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Officially Entered The Civil Rights Movement After Rosa Parks’ Arrest. Martin Luther King Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement in 1955. Then, a 42-year-old activist named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Bill of Rights Institute - Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott; Louisiana State University - Libraries - Martin Luther King, Jr. BlackPast.org - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia of Alabama - Martin Luther King, Jr. United States History - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. List of major achievements by Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspired by the belief that peaceful protest could eliminate social injustice, he led the American civil rights movement of the mid-1950s and ’60s. King organized mass protests against racial discrimination and championed nonviolent resistance to oppression. 1) Martin Luther King Jr was born in the United States of America to African American parents. At birth he was named Michael King, but his father later changed his name to Martin Luther King Jr. 2) When Martin Luther King was growing up, life was hard for African Americans. The Southern United States operated under the ‘Jim Crow laws’ that Martin Luther King once described lawyer and activist Fred Gray as “the brilliant young Negro who later became the chief counsel for the protest movement” (King, 41). Gray provided legal advice to Rosa Parks , King’s Montgomery Improvement Association , the local branch and state conference of the National Association for the Advancement Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His birth name was Michael King Jr., but his father changed both their names to Martin Luther King in honor of the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther. King skipped two grades in high school, entering Morehouse College at the age of 15. Honor the contributions of luminaries like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and others with these Black History facts. From Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King Jr., learn more about the 1. King's Birth Name Was Michael, Not Martin. King was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. In 1934, however, his father, a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Germany Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was the nation's most prominent leader in the 20th century struggle for civil rights. He was born in the segregated south of Atlanta, Georgia and after graduating from Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University he entered the Christian ministry. E.D. Nixon was a Pullman porter and civil rights leader who worked with Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to initiate the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Updated: Jul 07, 2020 2:52 PM EDT
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