Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Spingarn Medal, the highest honor awarded by the NAACP, for his outstanding leadership during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This historic year-long protest, which began on December 5, 1955, led to the desegregation of Montgomery’s public buses and marked a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
The Spingarn Medal recognized King’s nonviolent activism and his growing influence as a national civil rights leader.
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