... first consider the view that Martin Luther King did play the major role for equal rights. It was on the 5th December 1955 that Martin Luther King would officially join the struggle for equal rights in America and would help in the advancement of the civil rights to movement. King was made president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association after an event which sparked off protest. It took place in Montgomery when a white bus driver ordered Mrs Rosa Perks to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused and was arrested by the police. Other blacks on the bus did not do anything because they were accustomed to this discrimination. Mrs Rosa Perks was highly respected in the black community and it caused an outcry. She was released and it was now Martin Luther King who would have to take action. King organised a bus boycott in ...

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