[African-Americana] [King, Martin Luther, Jr.] Group of 18 Items Related to the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and Alfonso and Lucy Campbell, ca. 1950s-60sA Collection Related to Montgomery, Alabama Civil Rights Activists, Alfonso and Lucy B. CampbellMontgomery, Alabama, etc., 1956-90. A remarkable collection of 18 printed and mimeographed items related to Alfonso and Lucy B. Campbell and their life in Montgomery, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s, and beyond. Size and condition vary, generally well-preserved.Alfonso Campbell and Lucy Barnes met in Montgomery during a period of increased activism in the African Americanmunity that set the stage for the Bus Boycott in 1955-56 and the greater Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In the 1940s they were both employed at Alabama State College (now Alabama State University), where Alfonso worked as Supervisor of Transportation and Lucy as a staff librarian. When they began their court Alfonso had just returned from Europe a decorated war hero, and Lucy was newly relocated from Portsmouth, Virginia after receiving her Masters in Library Science at North Carolina Central University. They were active members of the Baptistmunity--Alfonso and his brother, Elisha B. Campbell, served as Deacons at St. James Baptist Church in Waugh, Alabama--and married on May 4, 1946. In 1954 they were raising two young children when 25-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., became the 20th Pastor of the prominent Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Although Dexter was not the Campbell's church, they were drawn to the new, young, and energetic Pastor who had recently arrived from Boston. They first met King at his first sermon at Dexter, and during his six-year tenure as Pastor there the Campbell's frequently attended his sermons, while Lucy and her children regularly attended its Sunday School, where King often participated.When the Montgomery Bus Boycott began in the winter of 1955, both Alfonso and Lucy, like many of their friends and neighbors, became some of its early organizers and supporters. They participated in the preliminary one-day boycott held on December 5 that was called in response of the arrest of their friend, Rosa Parks, for her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man. They also attended the first massmunity meeting held that same night at Holt Street Baptist Church that overwhelmingly voted in favor of extending the boycott. That same evening the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was created to plan, coordinate, and direct the boycott with Dr. King unanimously elected its president. The Campbells, along with thousands of others who crammed into pews and overflowed onto the Church's lawn, listened to King's riveting speech that same night when he called for justice and urged themunity to affirm the belief "that democracy transformed from thin paper to thick action is the greatest form of government on earth". Although Parks's cour