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60 years after Montgomery boycott, Rosa Parks's struggle continues

From our archives: 鈥榃hich path for civil rights? Nonviolence was Dr. King鈥檚 Plea鈥�

01/18/2019 3:17 pm ET After the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the Monitor considered what might happen to the civil rights movement that had, for many around the world, become synonymous with him. This article from April 6, 1968, traces the thread of nonviolence through King's life 鈥� how it evolved and the forces arrayed against it when he was killed. Part of a 2019 archival project on Dr. King.