Within days, calls for a boycott spread throughout Montgomery. The Montgomery Bus Boycott not only catapulted figures like Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to national fame, but also galvanized ...

Montgomery's year-long bus boycott by Negroes came to an end as the first vehicles moved out on routes through this citadel of racial segregation. Advertisement At first Negroes and whites ...

Montgomerians marked the anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on Monday with several events, including a ribbon cutting for the Holt Street Baptist Church Historical Museum. The church was ...

Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who is best known for her work with the Civil Rights Movement and her arrest for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery ...

Sixty-nine years ago this month, Rosa Parks, a Black woman in Montgomery, Ala ... It was women who were driving the bus boycott, and Nixon “scolded the ministers and everyone else for letting ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 6 ... The crowd jammed into a Baptist church for the rally that came after the first day's boycott of the buses, to protest the conviction of a seamstress who refused ...

She worked to promote civil rights before the Montgomery bus boycott. She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws ...