A young man of tremendous and urgent ambition - King was just 26 years old when he organized the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 - he built a movement more collaboratively than history gives him credit for.
Evers, the then-32-year-old Mississippi field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., first wrote to King in 1956, hoping to bring him to his home state.
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