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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".
Claudette Colvin
African-American civil rights activist (1939–2026)
Montgomery bus boycott
protest campaign against racial segregation on buses in Montgomery, Alabama

Ralph Abernathy
American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)
Edgar Nixon
NAACP, Sleeping Car Porters Union, and Bus Boycott leader in AL (1899-1987)

James F. Blake
American bus driver defied by Rosa Parks (1912-2002)

Fred Gray
American attorney and activist
Virginia Foster Durr
civil rights activist
Jo Ann Robinson
American civil rights activist
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
church building in Alabama, United States of America
Georgia Gilmore
American civil rights activist (1920-1990)
Browder v. Gayle
case relating to bus segregation laws