Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has his mug shot taken at a police station house in Montgomery County, Alabama, following his arrest for directing a city-wide boycott of segregated buses, Feb. 21, 1956.

American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) and his wife, American author, activist, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King (1927 – 2006) at his office in ...