Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Flickr says: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. Her arrest and the subsequent development of a 381-day bus boycott by tens of thousands heralded a new phase in the civil rights movement.

Rosa_Parks by Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

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Flickr says: On August 27, 1956, Tallahassee police arrested Reverend C.K. Steele and Reverend Daniel Speed for operating a carpool service without a license. Steele and Speed organized the carpool in order to provide transportation for African-Americans during the Tallahassee Bus Boycott.

Francisco A. Rodriguez, Reverend C.K. Steele and a third gentlemen walking towards the courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida by Florida Memory

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Flickr says: Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter - Tallahassee (1960)

Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter - Tallahassee by Florida Memory

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Flickr says: 1963 Aug. 28

[Signs carried by many marchers, during the March on Washington, 1963] (LOC) by The Library of Congress

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Flickr says: 1963. Civil rights demonstration in front of a segregated theater: Tallahassee, Florida.

Civil rights demonstration in front of a segregated theater: Tallahassee, Florida by Florida Memory

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Flickr says: 08/28/1963. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interrracial Justice, in a crowd.], 08/28/1963 by U.S. National Archives

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Flickr says: 08/28/1963. Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [A wide-angle view of marchers along the mall, showing the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument.], 08/28/1963 by U.S. National Archives

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Flickr says: Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C

[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C.] (LOC) by The Library of Congress

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Flickr says: Civil rights leaders talk with reporters after meeting with President John F. Kennedy after the March on Washington, D.C.

[Civil rights leaders talk with reporters after meeting with President John F. Kennedy after the March on Washington, D.C.] (LOC) by The Library of Congress

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Flickr says: Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

[Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965] (LOC) by The Library of Congress

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Flickr says: President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., after handing him one of the pens used in signing the Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964 at the White House in Washington.

Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. by U.S. Embassy New Delhi

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Flickr says: Sen. George Smathers explains his decision to stop attending the White House breakfast meetings while discussions on the civil rights bill continue.

Senator George Smathers Reports - Civil Rights by Florida Memory

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Flickr says: 1979. Excerpt of original. Civil rights leader Angela Davis speaks at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University's Black History Month convocation.

Angela Davis by Florida Memory

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