Spawning A Movement

While Dr. King figures large in the annals of the civil rights struggle, he was one figure in a movement built by many. How did that movement start? Who were some of the other players?

Read about Rosa Parks, who has been honored for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

Find out more about the nine black children who integrated an Arkansas schoolhouse in 1957.

Read about James Farmer, director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).