Built circa 1912, this house became the home of the ministers of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1919. From September 1954 to February 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King lived here while serving as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. During that time he led the Bus Boycott of 1955-56 as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, beginning a career as a world leader for civil rights and humanitarian causes and advocating non-violence. After a bomb damaged the house on January 31, 1956, he returned from a boycott meeting and calmed an angry crowd from the porch, averting possible violence. From 1947 to 1952, the house was occupied by Dr. Vernon Johns, an earlier advocate of civil rights. Leaving Montgomery in 1960, King went on to national leadership in civil rights. His accomplishments included serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Selma-Montgomery March, the March on Washington, and the Nobel Peace Prize. His work brought on a world social-humanitarian movement, and he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, during an effort to secure laborers' rights.

Photo: Anita Curry

Photo: Anita Curry

Photo: Anita Curry

Montgomery, Alabama · USA