reshape American society. In 1955, after Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat, King led the Montgomery bus boycott. The US Supreme Court sided with the boycotters in 1956. A year later, King formed and led the Southern Christian Leaders Conference, which helped organize the burgeoning civil rights movement. He also spoke before his first national audience and made the cover of Time magazine. But that was only the beginning. King’s organizing and protest work continued in the late fifties