King joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1. He is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association on December 5.

King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to fight segregation and achieve civil rights.

King leads the Birmingham campaign, which includes protests and his arrest. He writes the famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

King delivers his I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington, the largest civil rights demonstration in history.

King leads marches from Selma to Montgomery to secure voting rights for Black people, culminating in the passage of the Voting Rights Act.