Martin Luther King, Jr, the twenty-seven-year-old leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, appeals for calm from the porch of his bomb-damaged home, 30 January, 1956. Standing alongside him, from left to right, are: Fire Chief R. L. Lampley, Mayor W. A. Gayle (in uniform) and City Police Commissioner Clyde Sellers.
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