Negro Leaders Ride Bus--Two Negro ministers who were active in the long boycott of segregated buses were among the first to ride today after the Supreme Court’s integration order went into effect in Montgomery. At left in the front seat is the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy. At the left in the second seat is the Rev. M. L. King Jr., and at the right is a white minister, the Rev. Glenn Smiley of New York, who said he was here as an observer. The woman is unidentified.

Associated Press · [ca. December 1956]

[Information from item housing] Abernathy, Rev. Ralph D. Montgomery, Ala., Negro Minister