King's role in the bus boycott transformed him into a national figure and the best-known spokesman of the civil rights movement. alt=|thumb|upright|King first rose to prominence in the civil rights movement while minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
King's role in the bus boycott transformed him into a national figure and the best-known spokesman of the civil rights movement. alt=|thumb|upright|King first rose to prominence in the civil rights movement while minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church i.n Montgomery, Alabama