Playboy Interview: Martin Luther King

Playboy Interview: Martin Luther KingOn December 5, 1955, to the amused annoyance of the white citizens of Montgomery. Alabama, an obscure young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., called a city-wide Negro boycott of its segregated bus system. To their consternation, however, it was almost 100 percent successful; it lasted for 381 days and nearly bankrupted the bus line. When King's home was bombed during the siege, thousands of enraged Negroes were ready to riot, but the soft-spoken...