Montgomery Bus Boycott

Taylor will be remembered for bravely speaking out after she was gang-raped by six white men in the Jim Crow era.

King was a radical. He challenged America's class system and its racial caste system. He was a strong ally of the nation's labor union movement. He was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers' strike. In his critique of American society and his strategy for changing it, King pushed the country toward more democracy and social justice.