History-making civil rights activists speak at NMSU

March 19, 2012 by Janet Perez, NMSU News Center In 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama signaled the start of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. Some of the organizers of the boycott, such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, became nationwide symbols of African-Americans’ struggle for equality. Two other boycott organizers More »