The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., right, accompanied by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, center, is booked by city police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 23, 1956.(Gene Herrick / AP Photo)
EDITOR’S NOTE: “What is happening in Montgomery is an American miracle,” Carey McWilliams wrote in 1956 for The Nation about Montgomery bus boycott.
Carey McWilliamsCarey McWilliams was editor of The Nation for twenty years (1955-75) and wrote numerous books on California. He died on 1980.