The black-and-white photograph shows Dr. Martin Luther King (at left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (at right) riding a desegregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in December 1956.

First Desegregated Bus Ride: Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy on first desegregated bus. Montgomery, Alabama, December 1956

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1956; printed 1994

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