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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lasting over a year, the Montgomery bus boycott was a protest campaign against racial segregation on the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama. After an African American named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a coalition formed in Nov. 1961 in Albany, Georgia to protest city segregation policies. Dr. King joined in December, planning only to conceal the protestors for the day and he went to jail during a mass arrest of peaceful demonstrators. -
The Birmingham Campaign
Lasting about two months in 1963, the Birmingham campaign was a strategic effort started by MLK's SCLC to end discrimination economic policies in the Alabama cities. Some of the protest including boycotting certain businesses that hired only white people that had segregated restrooms. -
March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom
Perhaps Dr. King’s most famous act as a civil rights leader came during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, on Aug. 28, 1963. The largest political rally ever seen in the US, it drew between 200,000 and 300,000 police and participants, to whom King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. -
Bloody Sunday
Dr. King and several other civil rights leaders organized three marches from Selma, Ala., to the state capital of Montgomery, in a bid for voting rights for all. -
Vietnam War Opposition
Dr. King, an opponent of the Vietnam War, denounced America's involvement in a series of speeches at rallies and demonstrations. His first speech on the war itself, in 1967, was called “Beyond Vietnam” and was delivered exactly one year before his assassination. In it, he criticized the US government, insisting it was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
