Martin Luther King Jr. · every age

What was Martin Luther King Jr. doing at 26?

Led a bus boycott at 26, won the Nobel at 35, dead at 39

1. Dec 1, 1955

   Led the Montgomery bus boycott at 26

   It began after Rosa Parks' arrest and lasted 385 days, until the courts struck down bus segregation.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Photo: Bernie Faingold (1964), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source