The Montgomery bus boycott lasted from December of 1955 through December of 1956. What people often remember of that moment in history is that when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, it ...

MARTA has unveiled a commemorative bus honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, in partnership with The King Center, ahead of the 2025 King holiday.

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1966. Getty Images “So King steps up to the podium at Holt Street Baptist Church on Dec. 5, 1955 and gives this incredible speech, and it's the first time that most ...

Winning designs will be displayed across bus stops, trains stations and shopping malls nationwide, with the winners announced on August 28, the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a ...

Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by NPR’s Book of ...

It wasn’t for 15 years until after King’s death that civil rights activists finally succeeded in making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a nationally observed holiday.. On Nov. 2, 1983, Reagan ...