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 ...
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 ...
In 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery ... who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.