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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...
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 ...