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 ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec ... 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 to ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, when a lady called Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. This act of defiance set the wheels ...

December marks the 69th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and while the original church is now a museum, Holt Street Baptist Church served as the first meeting site for ...