Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated ... After earning his education, King returned to the South ...

On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and 50 others were charged ... Just as it had laid the groundwork for Rosa Parks’s act of defiance in Montgomery, King’s organization had been waiting for ...

Martin Luther King was ... Alabama, where Rosa Parks was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. After Parks' arrest, King came to national prominence in ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his ... On Dec. 1 of that year, a seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus and took a seat. As the bus continued along ...

More than half a century ago, civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for equality in Montgomery, inspiring a national movement through acts of nonviolence What Was on ...

Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers to the civil rights movement dot the city landscape: Dr. King’s house, the place where Rosa Parks was ... in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...